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Asset forfeiture refers to the authorized seizure of money, negotiable instruments, securities, or other things of value. In federal anti-drug laws, Asset forfeiture is the authorizat

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Deutsch: Vermögenswerte / Español: Activos / Português: Ativos / Français: Actifs / Italiano: Attività /

Assets means assessing the strengths of individuals’ lifestyle is an important part of lifestyle assessment, as is assessment of early recollections and basic mistakes.

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Assigned (biological) sex refers to the Sex of the individual that is recorded on the birth certificate - male or female.

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An assignment refers to a task or activity that is given to an individual or group to complete, typically as part of a study, research, or therapy program. Assignments can be used in various settings, such as in educational, clinical, or research settings, and can be designed to measure different aspects of behavior, cognition, or emotion.

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Assignment bias refers to a threat to internal validity that occurs when the process used to assign different participants to different treatments produces groups of individuals with noticeably different characteristics.

Deutsch: Assimilation / Español: Asimilación / Português: Assimilação / Français: Assimilation / Italiano: Assimilazione /

Assimilation refers to the process by which new objects, events, experiences, or information are incorporated into existing schemas.

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- Assimilation Factor : Assimilation Factor refers to a psychic ordering Parameter that is a measure of how well the ego can assimilate an experience.

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Assimilation-contrast theory refers to the idea advanced by Sherif and Hovland in the 1960s that a person's current position serves as a point of reference in relation to an attempt to persuade, assimilating positions close to his or her own and contrasting (or rejecting) positions discrepant from his or her own.

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