A patient repeats, "I feel hot. Hot, cot, rot, tot, got. I'm a spot." The nurse documents this as an illustration of:
a. Blocking
b. Clanging
c. Echolalia
d. Neologism
ANS: B
Clanging is word choice based on sound, not meaning, and includes nonsense rhymes and puns.
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