The nurse asks a patient with schizophrenia if he had any visitors on Sunday. Which response indicates loose association?
a. "No."
b. "Yes! I had 90 visitors who came from every state in the union."
c. "Sunday is the Sabbath. Do we have visitors on the Sabbath?"
d. "We visited Yellowstone Park last summer."
ANS: D
Loose association is a type of disordered thinking that occurs when the individual cannot interpret information and the conversation does not flow.
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