LESS-IS-MORE HYPOTHESIS
a theory which implies teaching young and infantile children quickly with smaller pieces of information is much more beneficial that…
LETHAL CATATONIA
A medical condition during which patients experience an acute period of maniacal excitement but after which can lead to an…
LETHAL DOSE (LD)
The measurement of a specific drug which indicates the level before it becomes lethal to inject into a patient.
LETHALITY SCALE
A list of criteria used to predict how probable suicide or attempted suicide is in patients. There are a variety…
LETTER CANCELLATION TEST
a test which looks at the attention and unilateral neglect of a person by asking them to circle a single…
LETTER-NUMBER SEQUENCING
a subtest which forms a base on the wechsier adult intelligence scale where participants are required to sequence (to their…
LEUKOTOMY (LEUCOTOMY)
a psychosurgical procedure where the frontal lobes of the human brain were physically cut from the deeper grey matter centres…
LEUPROLIDE
a hormone which blocks the actions of androgens and oestrogens in the human body used in the treatment of tumours,…
LEVEL I AND LEVEL II TESTS
basic intelligence tests which categorize abilities into two separate groups. The first is associated processing and the second, conceptual processing.…
LEVEL-OF-ASPIRATION THEORY
an approach to the performance of a group or as an individual which assumes the level of emotional and motivational…
LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
a level of alert observed in human beings, which has a wide range from drowsiness when tired to sleep and…
LEVELS OF INTELLIGENCE
some theories believe that intelligence can be graduated in a hierarchal structure, these are the levels of intelligence. The top…
LEVELS-OF-PROCESSING MODEL OF MEMORY
first proposed by Canadian psychology M. Craik (1935 - ), suggesting that the encoding of a specific memory is dependent…