To what does a person's type of dress, language, and social relationships pertain?
a. Psychologic age
b. Biologic age
c. Chronologic age
d. Social age
D
Social age refers to the roles and habits of a person in relation to other members of society, in-cluding such aspects as the person's type of dress, language, and social relationships.
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