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