LOCO PLANT
any plant which belongs to the genus Astragalus or Oxytropis which grows abundantly in the wild of Western North American,…
LOGICOGRAMMATICAL DISORDER
results from an accumulation of semantic aphasia which results in components of sentences being swapped around changing the meaning of…
LOOSENING OF ASSOCIATIONS
the action of jumping between unrelated or indirectly associated ideals and theories mid-sentence without any reason. This is similar to…
LOW VISION
a period of decrease visual capacity, which is not necessarily the result of a physiological condition and as a result…
LUMBAR PUNCTURE
a medical procedure which aims to obtain a sample of cerebrospinal fluid for furthering the diagnostic process. It involves inserting…
LUST MURDER
one of the most extreme kinds of sexual sadism where one partner achieves sexual exhilaration from the murder of a…
LEADERLESS GROUP DISCUSSION (LGD)
Involves discussion between members of a group pertaining to the details of potential leaders and their currently lacking executive command.
LEARNING THEORY
A theory which sets out to explain the learning process itself. This term is actually an umbrella term for smaller…
LETHAL DOSE (LD)
The measurement of a specific drug which indicates the level before it becomes lethal to inject into a patient.
LEVELS-OF-PROCESSING MODEL OF MEMORY
first proposed by Canadian psychology M. Craik (1935 - ), suggesting that the encoding of a specific memory is dependent…
LEXICAL HYPOTHESIS
the theory that important natural characteristics and traits unique to individuals have become intrinsically embedded in our natural-language lexicon over…
LIEBMANN EFFECT
a physical phenomenon which occurs when the border between two different visual stimuli is defined by only a hue.
LIFE-EVENTS RATING SCALE
A scale which measures the potential impact from a critical life event such as marriage or changing career.
LIGHT-DARK CYCLE
a pre-programmed cycle during which the lights of a room or compound are sequentially turned on or off in rooms…
LIMITED GUARDIANSHIP
a level of control over a person who is deemed incompetent in certain areas of society such as control over…