NOUN
- the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it
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the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior
his perseveration continued to the point where it was no longer appropriate
How To Use perseveration In A Sentence
- his perseveration continued to the point where it was no longer appropriate
- With that change, they found that bees no longer demonstrated a preference for perseveration.
- Schizophrenics frequently speak in a stilted, manneristic fashion, and the fluency of their speech may be intermittently disturbed, with paucity of speech, verbigeration (associations repeated in a stereotyped manner, palilalia in the aphasia literature), or perseveration (words or phrases repetitively inserted in the flow of speech). The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
- The Card Perseveration Task was developed by Siegel to assist in measuring pathology in sociopaths, specifically, the apparent inability to respond to punishment.
- Three patients were found to respond to the fenfluramine therapy with reduction in echolalia, perseveration and motor disturbances and an increase in attention and social awareness.
- Such self-regulatory perseveration is characterized by unproductive rumination about the failure.
- The second type of error was a perseveration error.
- It has been used as a test of perseveration and to assess the ability to sort cards according to class membership.
- Problems in response inhibition and response perseveration are well documented in studies of children with ADHD.
