Thought Disorders Flashcards
Circumstantiality
inability to answer a question without giving excessive, unnecessary detail. However, this differs from tangentiality in that the person does eventually return the original point.
Tangentiality
wandering from a topic without returning to it.
Neoligisms
new word formations, which might include the combining of two words.
Clang associations
ideas are related to each other only by the fact they sound similar or rhyme.
Word salad
completely incoherent speech where real words are strung together into nonsense sentences.
Knight’s move
severe type of loosening of associations, where there are unexpected and illogical leaps from one idea to another. It is a feature of schizophrenia.
Flight of ideas
a feature of mania, is thought disorder where there are leaps from one topic to another but with discernible links between them.
Perseveration
repetition of ideas or words despite an attempt to change the topic.
Echolalia
repetition of someone else’s speech, including the question that was asked.