FLOW OF THOUGHT

Question 1

Because of disturbances in idea linkage, has no communicative value.

Answer 1

Poverty of Content

Question 2

Person digresses into a great many unnecessary/irrelevant details before point.

Answer 2

Circumstantiality

Question 3

Smiliar to circumstantiality but diverts & never makes point

Answer 3

Tangientiality

Question 4

So severely disrupted, sequence of random words.

Answer 4

Word Salad

Question 5

Linkages based on sounds.

Answer 5

Clang

Question 6

Making up words. Combination of 2+ words not understood by others.

Answer 6

Neologisms

Question 7

Parroting of words.

Answer 7

Echolalia

Question 8

Repetitiously emitting the same response to different stimuli, can be verbal and motor.

Answer 8

Perseveration

Question 9

Sudden obstruction/interruption in spontaneous flow of thinking.

Answer 9

Blocking

Question 10

Increased amount & rate. Difficult to interrupt, loud & emphatic.

Answer 10

Pressure of Speech

Bipolar/Manic/Anxiety

Question 11

Continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt content changes. Distracting stimuli, recongizable associations and puns. Emotion driven.

Answer 11

Flight of Ideas

Question 12

Characterized by illogical linkages.

Answer 12

Looseness of Association

Question 13

Cessation of speech.

Answer 13

Mutism