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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.
- Assimilation Factor : Assimilation Factor refers to a psychic ordering Parameter that is a measure of how well the ego can assimilate an experience.
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.
Assisted living refers to housing or living arrangements for the elderly, infirm, or disabled, in which housekeeping, meals, medical care, and other assistance is available to residen
Assisted living facilities refer to a supportive living arrangement for people who need assistance with activities of daily livings (ADLs) or individual activities of daily livings (I