LATERAL DOMINANCE (Laterality)
Predominance of one side of the body over the other, resulting in the preferred use and superior functioning of either…
LABELED-LINE THEORY OF TASTE CODING
The taste is perceived exclusively as a product of activity in that labelled line activity in neurons outside the labelled…
LACUNAR STROKE
Lacunar strokes account for about 20% of strokes, it is caused by a small arc: ions resulting from obstruction of…
LANDAU REFLEX
Absence of the reflex is a sign of a neurological disorder such as cerebral palsy or motor neurons disease. When…
LANGUAGE LOCALIZATION
Since 1861 it has been postulated that speech processing was localized near the third frontal convolution of the left hemisphere,…
LATENCY STAGE
A stage in the Psychosexual Development of a child starting around age 3 through puberty when sexual libido turns to…
LAURENCE-MOON-BIEDL SYNDROME
A degenerative disorder characterized by a degree of obsety, below average intelligence, retina abnormalities, and extra fingers or toes. Associated…
LADD-FRANKLIN THEORY
It is based on the notion that light of a certain wave length causes substances to be released from a…
LANDAU-KLEFFNER SYNDROME
Many children with the disorder experience seizures which generally disappear by adulthood, the syndrome usually occurs in children between the…
LATENT CONTENT
1. Hidden meaning in communication 2. Unconscious wishes expressed through dream or fantasy in symbolic representation as part of psychoanalytic theory.
LAW OF ADVANTAGE
The theory that defines the process of thinking when one of two or more inconsistent or incompatible responses has an…
LABELING THEORY
Describing an individual as deviant and then treating them as such may result in mental disorder or delinquency also called…
LADD-FRANKLIN, CHRISTINE
He worked on mathematics led to an articles on a technical problem with binocular vision in the first issue if…
LANGUAGE PLANNING
a government attempt to change the way a language is used in a community.
LATENT INHIBITION
The impedance of Pavlovian conditioning resulting from prior exposures with a conditioned stimulus before being paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
LAW OF ASSIMILATION
The theory that an organism will respond to new stimuli based on reactions to familiar stimuli. Also known as generalization.