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Echolalia vs Perseveration - What's the difference?

echolalia | perseveration |

As nouns the difference between echolalia and perseveration

is that echolalia is the immediate, involuntary, and repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another while perseveration is uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder.

echolalia

English

(wikipedia echolalia)

Noun

  • (clinical psychology) The immediate, involuntary, and repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another.
  • An infant's repetitive imitation of vocal sounds spoken by another person, occurring naturally during childhood development.
  • Any apparently meaningless, repetitious noises, especially voices.
  • * 1926 , , The Great Gatsby , Penguin 2000, p. 50:
    • There was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden.

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    perseveration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (psychology) Uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder.
  • (psychology) The tendency to continue or repeat an act or activity after the cessation of the original stimulus.
  • The act or an instance of persevering; perseverance.
  • Argument by repetition; a mantra.
  • * 2006 Feb. 1, Mark Furlong, " Just keep walking: shame has become passe, a victim of a culture that views it as an impediment to achieving one's own ends. But at what cost to how we treat others. (The ‘Me’ Revolution)," Arena Magazine :
    • Being subjected to this mantra once more re-evokes the perseveration we routinely suffer in the moral ambiguity characterising our supposedly post-politics milieu.
  • * 2009 Sep. 23, Richard B. Hoppe, " Science, Non-Science, and Pseudoscience," pandasthumb.org :
    • Perseveration with demonstrably false arguments. This is illustrated for creationism by the ability to construct an Index to Creationist Claims which describes the plethora of such false arguments, rebutted over and over in the scientific literature but persisted in by creationists.