Thought disorders

Question 1

What does flight of ideas describe?

Answer 1

Fast-flowing pressured speech, each sentence conveys a different message, but all have discernible links between them

Question 2

What does knights move describe?

Answer 2

Each sentence conveys different ideas with no discernible links between them- completely random and illogical

Question 3

What does Circumstantiality describe?

Answer 3

Patient cannot answer a question without giving excessive and unnecessary detail but eventually return to answer the question

Question 4

What does clang associations describe?

Answer 4

Ideas are related to each other only by the fact they sound similar or rhyme.

Question 5

What does Echolalia describe?

Answer 5

The repetition of someone else’s speech, including the question that was asked.

Question 6

What does word salad describe?

Answer 6

Completely incoherent speech where real words are strung together into nonsense sentences.

Question 7

What does Neologisms describe?

Answer 7

New word formations, which might include the combining of two words.

Question 8

What does Perseveration describe?

Answer 8

Patients repeat a phrase or word despite moving on from the initial question