Sixty-year-old Kwan has led a life filled with ups (a prosperous career) and downs (a battle with breast cancer) and continues to maintain the capacity to change in response to such experiences. A lifespan developmental psychologist would likely say that Kwan has
a. a flawed social clock.
b. great plasticity.
c. minimal longevity.
d. maturational grief.
b
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