You ask your 89-year-old great grandmother how she has changed over the years

If your great grandmother is like most elderly persons, she will
a. provide a very inaccurate description of herself due to a lack of memory regarding her younger years.
b. provide a very accurate description of the major changes in her life over the years.
c. tend to overestimate the amount of change that has occurred in her life over the years.
d. say that she is essentially the same person that she was when she was young.


ANSWER: d

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