_______________________ describe(s) the use of conscious awareness and choice as an adaptive response to cumulative physiological and physical losses with subsequent functional deficits occurring because of aging
A. Intrapychic factors
B. Personal control
C. Functional performance mechanisms
D. Gerotrancendence
Ans: C
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