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Tween refers to a youngster between middle childhood and adolescence, often between 8 and 12 years.
twenty-four-hour recall is a technique of recording the type and amount of food (nutrients) consumed during a twenty-four-hour period.
twin study is a term in Genetics research which refers to the comparison of twins with unrelated or less closely related individuals. If twins, particularly monozygotic twins who share identical genotypes, share common characteristics such as a disorder, even if they were reared in different environments, then strong evidence of genetic involvement in those characteristics exists.
In the psychological and medical area the term twitch describes the tension-generating response following the application of a single stimulus to muscle.
Two-Factor Theory refers to a Theory that is used to explain the learning and Maintenance of fears through a combination of classical and operant conditioning.
- Two-factor theory of emotion : Two-factor theory of emotion refers to the idea that emotional experience is the result of a two-step self -perception process in which people first experience physiological arousal and then seek an appropriate explanation for it; if they attribute the arousal to an emotional source, they experience that emotion
Tympanic membrane refers to the eardrum, a membrane at the end of the auditory canal that vibrates in response to vibrations of the air and transmits these vibrations to the ossicles
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