LEPRECHAUNISM
a condition typically characterized by having a large head in proportion to a small body, sometimes wide-set eyes and low-set…
LIBIDINAL TYPES
First proposed by Sigmund Freud, libidinal types are a classification of an individuals personality based on their perceived distribution of…
LIFETIME PERSONALITY
first proposed by U.S. psychologist Henry Alexander Murray, the lifetime personality explains behaviours that dominate an individuals lifestyle between birth…
LIMBIC CORTEX
a structure found in the cerebral cortex of the brain which is associated with the limbic system.
LINEAR CAUSATION
a simple explanation of the cause and effect hypothesis in that a simple event will have been caused by a…
LINGUISTIC APPROACH
a teaching method which assume children in the class who participate have a strong grasp of their mother tongue (oral…
LIPREADING
a method of understanding or interpreting language typically used by those who do not have full use of their ears,…
LITIGIOUS PARANOIA
a strand of paranoia in which individuals quarrel consistently, claim persecution (which is usually untrue) and insist that their 'rights'…
LOCALIZED AMNESIA
a condition whose main symptom involves memory loss associated to one part of an individuals timeline.
LONG-TERM POTENTIATION (LTP)
the temporal enhancement of synaptic transmission between two neurons, or synapses. Neurons in hippocampal tissues have been reported to show…
LYMPHOCYTES
or T cells are a type of lymphocyte involved in the immune response. They develop in the thymus gland and…
LEAD-PIPE RIGIDITY
observed in sufferers of Parkinson's disease and Cerebral Palsy. It is a condition resulting in muscular rigidity resisting slow and…