A related term is tangentiality —it refers to off-the-point, oblique or irrelevant answers given to questions. [1] In some studies on creativity , knight's move thinking , while it describes a similarly loose association of ideas, is not considered a mental disorder or the hallmark of one; it is sometimes used as a synonym for lateral thinking . [3] [4] [5] Examples [ edit ] "The next day when I'd be going out you know, I took control, like uh, I put bleach on my hair in California." ... Bleuler in 1950. [8] The phrase knight's move thinking was first used in the context of pathological thinking by the psychologist Peter McKellar in 1957, who hypothesized that individuals with schizophrenia fail to suppress divergent associations. [3] Derailment was used with this meaning by Kurt Schneider in 1959. [8] See also [ edit ] Nonsense Non sequitur (logic) and Non sequitur (literary device) Red herring Relevance logic Schizophasia SCIgen , a program that generates nonsense research papers by grammatically combining snippets; many of the sentences generated are individually plausible Tip-of-the-tongue Train of thought References [ edit ] ^ a b P.J. McKenna, Schizophrenia and related syndromes , Psychology Press, 1997, ISBN 0-86377-790-2 , pp. 14-15 ^ a b A.C.P. Sims, Symptoms in the mind: an introduction to descriptive psychopathology , Edition 3, Elsevier Health Sciences, 2003, ISBN 0-7020-2627-1 , pp. 155-156 ^ a b Robert Spillane, John Martin, Personality and performance: foundations for managerial psychology , UNSW Press, 2005 ISBN 0-86840-816-6 , pp. 239-243 ^ Tudor Rickards, Creativity and problem solving at work , Edition 3, Gower Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0-566-07961-5 , p. 81 ^ Richard Courtney, Drama and intelligence: a cognitive theory , McGill-Queen's Press, 1990, ISBN 0-7735-0766-3 , p. 128 ^ Andreasen NC. ... CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link ) ^ a b Tony Thompson, Peter Mathias, Jack Lyttle, Lyttle's mental health and disorder , Edition 3, Elsevier Health Sciences, 2000, ISBN 0-7020-2449-X , pp. 136, 168-170