Psychology: Research and Review
Table 1 Distribution of tasks of 6-week CR module
From: Effect of cognitive retraining treatment in mild to moderate depressive disorders
Week | Domain | Tasks | Task description |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Attention (Attn) | Number Connection (NC) | Participant connects numbers (1–50) in a sequence which are randomly presented in space in a box on an A4 sheet. The numbers increase thru week 1 to 3 |
Working Memory (WM) | Digit Sequencing (DS) | Two-digit numbers are presented and the participant is required to repeat immediately. The difficulty level has 2-digit numbers from 3 to 10 | |
Mental Speed (MS) | Letter Symbol Substitution (LSS) | An A4 sheet had boxes split in two parts, upper half has an alphabet and lower half was left empty for the participant to match the symbol for each alphabet, given in a row on top the sheet, and pen it down (5 rows) | |
2 | Attn | NC | As above (1–75) |
WM | DS | As above (3–10) | |
MS | LSS | As above (10 rows) | |
3 | Attn | NC | As above (1–100) |
Information processing (IP) | Grain Sorting (GS) | The task requires the participant to sort 2 types of grains (Beans and split chickpeas), A 100-g amount of each grain was used | |
WM | Calculation (Cal) | Ten numerical problems are solved using addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication | |
4 | Attn | Letter Cancellation (LC) | Participant cancels 2 letters appearing among randomly presented English alphabets on an A4 sheet (42 rows, 53 columns) |
IP | GS | As above (green gram and rice) | |
WM | Cal | As above (10 problems) | |
5 | Attn | LC | As above (42 rows, 53 columns) |
Planning (Pl) | Mazes (Mz) | Participant moves through two mazes presented in square of 9.53 cm each without lifting pencil avoiding alleys | |
6 | Attn | LC | As above (60 rows, 60 columns) |
Pl | Mz | As above |