Glossary T
Glossary T
Deutsch: Tutor / Español: Tutor / Português: Tutor / Français: Tuteur / Italiano: Tutor
Tutor in the psychology context refers to an individual who provides personalised guidance, instruction, or mentorship to support a learner’s cognitive, emotional, or academic development. Tutoring extends beyond teaching academic content, focusing on building confidence, fostering motivation, and addressing learning needs.
Deutsch: Ventilatorische Schwelle / Español: Umbral ventilatorio / Português: Limiar ventilatório / Français: Seuil ventilatoire / Italiano: Soglia ventilatoria
Tvent (Tvent) in the psychology context refers to the ventilatory threshold, a physiological marker indicating the point during physical exertion at which breathing becomes disproportionately heavy compared to oxygen consumption. Though rooted in exercise physiology, Tvent has psychological relevance, especially in the study of stress, anxiety, performance, and mind-body regulation.
This threshold is often used in sports psychology, behavioral medicine, and psychophysiological research to assess how the body and mind respond to increasing physical and emotional demands.
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.