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N., Sam M.S.

Sam holds a masters in Child Psychology and is an avid supporter of Psychology academics.
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LOCOMOTOR ACTIVITY

a term to describe the general movement of a organism or object from one area to another.

LOCOMOTOR ARREST

caused by stimulation of the hippocampal region in the brain resulting in the inhibition of movement.

LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA

involves the degeneration of the dorsal columns in the spinal cord resulting in a lack of coordinated motor function during

LOCOMOTOR PLAY

motor function which is classed as vigorous which can include activities such as chasing or running.

LOCURA

a hereditary inability typically observed in Latin American groups to cope and handle effectively stressful life events leading to possible

LOCUS CERULEUS (LOCUS COERULEUS LOCUS CAERULEUS)

a group of blue tinted nuclei found in the brainstem of humans. Their neurons have been found to produce norepinephrine.

LOCUS OF CONTROL

first proposed by U.S. psychologist Julian Rotter, the locus of control is a construct which attempts to explain the reason

LOD SCORE

is used to determine whether or not the data held of two gene loci indicates they are linked, meaning they're

LOGIC

a reason based argument from which you can only have one true valid conclusion which can be successfully deduced from

LOGICAL ERROR IN RATING

an error which is given by a judge to a performer for example for traits or variables which the judge

LOGICAL NECESSITY

a conclusion that is based on the process of logical deduction.

LOGICAL POSITIVISM

a philosophical approach to verifying information which apparently holds meaning and truth of all nontautological statements which is dependent on

LOGICAL THINKING

the process of thinking within the boundaries and laws of logic.

LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE

a step by step approach to mathematical calculations moving from one logical stage to the next in order to solve

LOGICOGRAMMATICAL DISORDER

results from an accumulation of semantic aphasia which results in components of sentences being swapped around changing the meaning of

LOGISTIC FUNCTION

used in looking at the growth rates and longitudinal quantitative data. A typical basic expressed function y = r/( 1

LOGISTIC REGRESSION

a technique used to display the binary dependent variable on one or more continuous variables.

LOG-LINEAR MODEL

a model which is used to evaluate and analyse the relationship (if any) between several categorical variables in a study.

LOG-LOG COORDINATE PAPER

a special type of paper which displays both ordinate and abscissa in logarithmic form.

LOGO- (LOG-

the combination of speech or words.