LOVE OBJECT
the recipient of an individuals emotional investment, affection and devotion and not uncommonly sexual interest.
LEARNED AUTONOMIC CONTROL
The person's ability to take control of normally automatic bodily responses (as a result of the autonomic nervous system) such…
LEARNING SET
a form of learning discriminatory ideals where the learner is taught for example that one object contains a food reward…
LEBER'S DISEASE
otherwise known as Leber's optic atrophy, first documented by Theodor Leber (1840 - 1917) who was a German ophthalmologist. It…
LEGITIMACY KNOWLEDGE
Typically the role played by an individuals 'major group' where contributions towards identification of significant discoveries is made.
LESCH-NYHAN SYNDROME
a genetic condition linked to a recessive gene on an X chromosome. Typical symptoms include- the tendency of compulsions to…
LEVEL I AND LEVEL II TESTS
basic intelligence tests which categorize abilities into two separate groups. The first is associated processing and the second, conceptual processing.…
LEXICAL ACCESS
Another term of vocabulary retrieval, where individuals produce a specific word or phrase from their lexicon of knowledge on prompting…
LIFE SPACE
a representation of the factors affecting an individuals life. These factors include environmental, biological, social and psychological factors which can…
LIGHT ADAPTATION
a physical and chemical change which occurs in the eye of humans as a result of a change in the…
LINEAR REGRESSION
a function whereby the independent variable is directly inproportional to the dependent variable giving rise to linear representations of the…
LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
the idea that languages themselves differ and diverge in the way their sematic space is identified and organized by speakers…
LISSENCEPHALY
a result of abnormal non-development of the cerebral cortex in the human brain which leads to an absence of convolutions.…
LIVING WILL
a letter or document which lists or explains the wishes of a person (whilst still competent) in the event of…
LOCKED WARD
a ward typically found in secure institutions or secure units where patients with severe mental disorders are houses and where…