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Definition of Perseverations
1. perseveration [n] - See also: perseveration
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perseverations
Literary usage of Perseverations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Marijuana Use in America: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary U. S (1996)
"Heavy users produced significantly more perseverations outside the category (an
incorrect response, based on a previously correct sorting principle, ..."
2. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: A Book of Directions Compiled with by Guy Montrose Whipple (1910)
"perseverations 3 7. Regressive inhibitions 1 8. ... (6) perseverations are
indicated by the recording by S in a given series < a word that had already been ..."
3. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests by Guy Montrose Whipple (1910)
"perseverations 3 7. Regressive inhibitions 1 8. Complete reversals 1 9. ...
(6) perseverations are indicated by the recording by S in a given series of a ..."
4. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: In Two Parts : a Book of Directions by Guy Montrose Whipple (1915)
"4 4. Insertions of nonsense words 1 5. Fusions 0 6. perseverations 3 7. ...
(0) perseverations are Indicated by the recording by S In a given series of a ..."
5. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The number of repetitions and perseverations should be counted. When an association
is spontaneously continued, either in an intelligent way or a ..."
6. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"In other cases the reaction words may be verbal perseverations not recognized as
such. To call an idea, whether verbal or otherwise, a perseveration is, ..."
7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"Hysteria must be considered in this case, because there appear attacks of mental "
reduction," with automatisms, somnambulism, fugues, perseverations, ..."
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