Figure 1.

Alcoholics practice cognitive rehearsal tasks to improve their cognitive functioning. Two examples of these tasks (as presented in workbook format in the study by Roehrich and Goldman [1993]) include the neuropsychological approach (A), in which the patient must look at the dot designs in the boxes at the left and then make the same designs in the boxes at the right, and the ecologically valid approach, or word-finding task (B), in which the patient must guess the meaning of a missing word (represented by a nonsense word) that appears in several sentences.