Mental Movement: Cognitive Therapy Worksheets

COGNITIVE THERAPY WORKSHEETS
MENTAL MOVEMENT
PACKET #30
DECEMBER 2020
What Do These Exercises Train?
Basketball in New York
Looking at the configuration of basketballs, your clients
will have to mentally manipulate the basketballs into
the correct hoops in as few moves as possible. Working
memory and planning are challenged in this exercise,
as clients must view the desired configuration and plan
the most effective way to reach it. This exercise also
helps with inhibition, as unplanned actions can cause
more steps needed to solve the problem.
Decipher
Correctly pairing symbols with meaningful letters
requires attention to detail, working memory, and the
use of both grammar and context clues. Your client will
have to use the help or given vowels or consonants,
or attempt to solve the puzzle through trial and error.
Using working memory, your client must identify which
letters have been correctly paired and use the solved
character-letter pairings to figure out the remaining
unknown character-letter pairings.
Objects Where are You?

Visual and spatial information is abundant in everyday
life in the forms of road signs, traffic lights, warning
labels, and icons on a computer screen. Being able to
distinguish objects from one another and locate them
efficiently is essential for driving, maintaining personal
safety, and functioning in the workplace. Your client
will engage their hippocampus while activating the
connections between the visual processing streams
to correctly identify, remember, and place the objects
they have seen.
Turn Around and Around

The ability to effectively manipulate objects mentally
allows us to make decisions as to what an object is,
where to place an object in space so that it does not
fall, and helps us create a plan for how to navigate our
environment. This task aims to train your client’s visual
mental imagery skills, specifically their mental rotation
abilities. Indeed, your client must visualize elements in
a pattern, identify the surface patterns of 3-D objects,
create a mental image of them, visualize their rotations,
and make comparisons in order to decide whether the
objects are the same or different.
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BASKETBALL IN NEW YORK

Can you figure out how many moves are needed to move the basketballs from the
placements on the top to match the placements below? You can only move the
balls from the top of the net. The middle net can only hold two balls and the other
nets can hold three.
3
5 1
4 2
2
1 3
4 5
1/5

1
2
3
2
1 3
2/5

2 1
4 3
4
1 2 3
3/5

1
3 2
5 4
2 3 5
1 4
4/5
SOLUTIONS
SHEET 1
Minimum Amount of Moves: 6
1. Move ball 3 into the center hoop.
3. Move ball 1 into the left hoop.
5. Move ball 5 into the right hoop.
SHEET 2
Minimum amount of moves: 4
SHEET 3
SHEET 4
5/5
DECIPHER
Grammar rules help us put together sentences that make sense. Without proper
sentence structure, words would just be strung together in many ways that we
could not derive meaning from! Using your knowledge of grammar and English
language, put together these words in a logical order that make a famous quote
when strung together. The first and last words of each sentence have been
already filled in. You may take time to examine the words and plan your solution,
but you do not have to. For an extra challenge, try to complete each quote in 1
minute and 30 seconds.
Puzzle
Be ;
more . If
, ,
enough .
- Oprah Winfrey
word bank:
what for you

you’ll
If more
you you have on
what Be
up don’t concentrate
end having will have you
thankful ever enough never have
1/4
DECIPHER
when strung together. The first and last words of each sentence have been
already filled in. You may take time to examine the words and plan your solution,
but you do not have to. For an extra challenge, try to complete each quote in 1
minute and 30 seconds.
Puzzle
The
home .
- Irish Proverb
word bank:
The shortest out
is road home
longest road the
2/4
DECIPHER
when strung together. The first and last words of this quote has been already
filled in. You may take time to examine the words and plan your solution, but you
do not have to. For an extra challenge, try to complete each quote in 1 minute
and 30 seconds.
Puzzle
Be . .
hide .
- Unknown
word bank:
Be be would you
be weird love the
know person
who you
who are
never
random hide
because
3/4
DECIPHER
Answers
Puzzle #1
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If
you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever
have enough. - Oprah Winfrey
Puzzle #2
The longest road out is the shortest road home. -Irish Proverb
Puzzle #3
Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know
who would love the person you hide. - Unknown
4/4
OBJECTS, WHERE ARE YOU?

In this exercise, you will see a grid with various objects filled in. It is your task
to remember which squares contained objects and which objects were in
each square. First, memorize the objects and their locations within the grid.
On the next page, correctly place the objects from the object bank into their
corresponding locations in the grid.
1/6

Can you place the correct object in the correct square from your memory?
2/6

In this exercise, you will see a grid with various objects filled in. It is your task
to remember which squares contained objects and which objects were in
each square. First, memorize the objects and their locations within the grid.
On the next page, correctly place the objects from the object bank into their
corresponding locations in the grid.
3/6

4/6

In this exercise, you will see a grid with various objects filled in. It is your task to
remember which squares contained objects and which objects were in each square.
First, memorize the objects and their locations within the grid. On the next page,
correctly place the objects from the object bank into their corresponding locations
in the grid.
5/6

6/6
TURN AROUND + AROUND

Can you finish this pattern so that it is a symmetrical pattern? There are 4
suggested answer below. Find the one pattern that is the reflection of the
pattern in the box below.
A B C D E
1/4

A B C D E
2/4

A B C D E
3/4

SOLUTIONS
ANSWER: B ANSWER: E
ANSWER: C
4/4
Bridging Questions
Basketball in New York: What similarities are there in the strategies that exist between
manipulating the basketballs to match a given configuration and completing a task at
work or an assignment at school?
Decipher: What clues helped you string together the quotes? What patterns did you
notice in sentence construction when you placed words in the blanks?
Objects, Where are You?: Think about the messiest room or drawer in your home. Is it
hard to find things that you need here? How can you optimize and organize your space
so that you do not have to remember as many details regarding where you placed things
here?
Turn around and Around: Are there objects that are difficult for you to recognize when
they are turned around? Which ones are they? What viewpoints do you have difficulty
with?
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Objects Where are You?

Turn Around and Around

BASKETBALL IN NEW YORK

BASKETBALL IN NEW YORK

BASKETBALL IN NEW YORK

BASKETBALL IN NEW YORK

BASKETBALL IN NEW YORK

what for you

The shortest out

OBJECTS, WHERE ARE YOU?

OBJECTS, WHERE ARE YOU?

OBJECTS, WHERE ARE YOU?

OBJECTS, WHERE ARE YOU?

OBJECTS, WHERE ARE YOU?

OBJECTS, WHERE ARE YOU?

TURN AROUND + AROUND

TURN AROUND + AROUND

TURN AROUND + AROUND

TURN AROUND + AROUND

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