Repeating the movements of another person
Echopraxia
Fixed, false belief
Delusion
Thoughts related by rhyming of words or sounds
Clang associations
Association disturbance in which the person goes off topic and never returns
Tangential thinking
Lack of emotional expression
Flat affect
Overall slowed movements
Psychomotor retardation
Idea, impulse, or emotion that a person can't get out consciousness
Obsessions
Words a person makes up that have meaning only for that person
Neologism
Disorganized thinking, jumps from one idea to another with no relation
Loose associations
Completely and conflicting with the content of the patient's ideas and speech with the situation
Inappropriate affect
Person has arms or legs placed in a position and will hold it for hours
Waxy flexibility
Delusional belief that others can hear or know what the client is thinking
Thought broadcasting
Repeating the speech of another person
Echolalia
Constant flow of speech in which a person jumps topic to topic rapidly
Flight of ideas
Restriction in the display and intensity of emotions
Blunted affect
Masklike faces, drooling, shuffling gait, tremors, muscular rigidity
Parkinson-like symptoms
Delusional belief that others are putting ideas or thoughts into their head
Thought insertion
Mixture of words and phrases that have no meaning
Word salad
Sudden abrupt cessation of a thought in the middle of a sentence
Thought blocking
A full range of normal emotion
Appropriate affect
Distortion of voluntary movements, involuntary muscular activity
Dyskinesia
Inaccurate interpretation that general events are personally directed to them
Ideas of reference
Stereotyped repetition of words or phrases that may or may not have meaning to the listener
Verbigeration
Excessive unnecessary detail and explanations before getting to the point
Circumstantiality
Rapid and dramatic shifts in emotional tone
Labile affect