The nurse asks a client how she is feeling, and the client provides a detailed description of everything she is experiencing. This is an example of:
a. Echolalia
b. Circumstantiality
c. Neologism
d. Perseveration
B
Circumstantiality is a speech pattern in which the client describes in too much detail and cannot be selective. Echolalia is repeating the last word heard, neologism is the coining of new words or expressions and perseveration is the repeating of a single activity and the inability to shift from one topic to another.
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