They completed a number of self-report inventories including a measure called the Brief Pain Coping Inventory, an inventory assessing accepting responses to pain as well as pain management responses standardly targeted by cognitive-behavioral treatment methods.
In retrospect, my initial judgments were exactly the sort of thought habits that were prolonging my anxiety and also the very thing targeted by the mindfulness based cognitive therapy.
To investigate whether changes in symptoms of depression from pre to post-treatment were related to the potential mechanisms of change targeted by the CBM-I (cognitive bias, imagery vividness) we carried out correlations between the relevant change scores in the whole sample.
We used Bloom's (1956) Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals, Handbook I, Cognitive Domain (hereafter referred to as Bloom's taxonomy) to classify the cognitive skills targeted by introductory biology courses.
Yet a recent analysis of the cognitive levels targeted by these exams debunks this claim (Zheng et al., 2008), finding that standardized exams routinely assess some higher cognitive levels.
Psychological variables targeted by the intervention (e.g., cognitive restraint, disinhibition, urge-related eating behavior, emotional eating, eating-related experiential acceptance, mindfulness and motivation) changed in the expected directions, and many of these changes were consistent with decreases in weight loss.
We evaluated TA learning (level 2) as alignment between the cognitive level targeted by learning objectives and the assessments created by TAs within each type of PD.
The negative appraisal subscale of the RIQ was used to assess appraisal bias for intrusive memories, that is, the cognitive bias targeted by the CBM of Appraisals paradigm.
One study found performance-related brain activity decreases in the cortical regions known to be involved in cognitive functions targeted by the intervention and performance related brain activity increases in subcortical areas [ 22].
While these programs have been successful in improving the specific cognitive function targeted by the training (i.e. memory programs improve memory performance) [ 39- 41], they do not have the potential to provide the physical and cognitive benefits offered by exercise training.
