PSY 1007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Clanging, Frontal Lobe, Gibberish

• School: St. John's University
• Department: PSY - PSYCHOLOGY
• Course: PSY 1007
• Professor: Scott

Document Summary

Speech or communication disorders are developed if these are damaged: aka aphasias, broca"s area: produces speech or to evoke words, wernicke"s area: word storage area vocabulary. Perseveration: constant repetition of the same word or phase; like a broken record. Word salad: a series of words linked together that have no meaning; jumble of words where there are no meaning. Poverty of content: a person speaks without any meaning. Neologism: invention of your own speech; make up words. Clang association: cannot pronounce words; claps the lips with words that rhyme. Echolalia: to mimic the speech pattern of others; if the sentence is too long, they only remember the beginning and ending. Hallucinations: auditory: hearing voices, visual sense: seeing things, tactile: feeling disturbances, olfactory: smelling problem: smelling foul odors (usually themselves, gustatory: feelings of taste, kinesthetic sense: movement is disturbed *walking in circles, vestibular sense: out of balance.