Perseveration definition
Perseveration means to respond in the same way repetitively, although it is not only about doing the same thing over and over, it is also continuing to do that thing past the point where it is reasonable to stop. Perseveration causes me to fixate on a task, which is particularly evident in my work: I will draft and re-draft a piece of work but am rarely satisfied with the result; and I can dwell for many minutes on a single element of punctuation, or for hours on matters such as page layout that most will never even notice (I will be aware of even a one point change in text size, or in the spaces between text- a difference of one seventy-second of an inch). I always use formal terms in my writing even when I know it is long-winded and affects reading comprehension: for example, one of the Respondent's customers is known to everyone as simply, "Dortech'; but my own writing always used the formal, "Dortech Architectural Systems Ltd. " even though I am aware that the long form adds nothing useful (moreover, I must check the entire document to see that its use is consistent throughout). Perseveration means that I become “stuck,” neither processing nor progressing through a thought pattern, affecting both the time taken to carry out an activity and the way in which that activity is carried out”.
Examples of Perseveration in a sentence
Background Research Under this task ▇▇▇▇▇ will conduct a search of the Built Environment Resource Database (BERD) available through the California Office of Historic Perseveration to determine if any of the properties in the Project study area have been previously evaluated.
Perseveration is one of the most captivating error types for language researchers.