Thought Disorders

Question 1

Cicrumstantiality

Answer 1

The 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.

Question 2

Tangentiality

Answer 2

Refers to wandering from a topic without returning to it

Question 3

Neoligisms

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Clang associations

Answer 4

When ideas are related to each other only by the fact they sound similar or rhyme

Question 5

Word salad

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Knight’s move thinking

Answer 6

Severe type of loosening of associations, where there are unexpected and illogical leaps from one idea to another. It is a feature of schizophrenia

Question 7

Flight of ideas

Answer 7

Feature of mania; is thought disorder where there are leaps from one topic to another but with discernible links between them

Question 8

Perseveration

Answer 8

The repetition of ideas or words despite an attempt to change the topic

Question 9

Echolalia

Answer 9

Repetition of someone else’s speech, including the question that was asked