Thought disorder

Question 1

flight of ideas

Answer 1

marked acceleration in thinking resulting in a stream of related concepts

Question 2

loosening of association (derailment)

Answer 2

train of thought shifts from one very loosely or unrelated concept to the next

in its worst form, becomes a mixture of incoherent words/phrases and is termed word salad

Question 3

thought blocking

Answer 3

sudden cessation to the flow of thought mid sentence

no recall of what they were saying/thinking

Question 4

neologisms

Answer 4

new words created by the patient

Question 5

preservation

Answer 5

an initially correct response is inappropriately repeated

Question 6

echoalia

Answer 6

when patients senselessly repeat words/phrases spoken around them like a parrot

Question 7

tangential speech

Answer 7

the speaker diverts from the original train of thought and never returns to the original point, jumping tangentially from one point to the next

Question 8

circumstantial speech

Answer 8

speech that is delayed in reaching its final goal due to the overinclusion of details and unnecessary asides and diversions
the speaker does connect the starting point with the destination!