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Age-graded expectations refer to views held within societies about what would be appropriate behavior at a given time in life.

Age-progression Photos refer to photographs that are "aged" through the use of computer software.

- Age, gender, SES, and cultural differences in making diagnoses : Age, gender, SES, and cultural differences in making diagnoses is the information about common demographic differences associated with specific mental disorders provided in the DSM-IV-TR when such information is known.

Ageism refers to a prejudicial view of older adults that characterizes them in negative ways.

Agency is a term in psychology used when viewing the self as the originator of action.

Agenda setting is a term used in communications theory that refers to the idea that the media define what is important and what is not by which stories they cover.

Agenesis refers to the complete or partial failure of an organ to develop.

Deutsch: Agent / Español: Agente / Português: Agente / Français: Agent / Italiano: Agente /

Agent refers to the thematic or semantic role corresponding to an individual who performs a given action.