According to Baltes and his colleagues, the most successful adaptation to declining physical and cognitive abilities in late adulthood involves ____ to promote cognitive functioning
a. habituation and dishabituation to create equilibrium (HDE)
b. cognitive reserve to improve IQ scores (CRI)
c. mental images and language to improve cognitive functioning (MILCF)
d. selective optimization with compensation (SOC)
Answer: D
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