Aiden's father recently died in an automobile accident. Since his father's death, Aiden has appeared emotionally unchanged but is now frequently truant from school, engages in reckless driving, and fights with other teens. A suitable diagnosis for Aiden might be adjustment disorder __________.

A. with mixed disturbance of emotion and conduct
B. with mixed anxiety and depressed mood
C. with disturbance of conduct
D. unspecified

Answer: C

Psychology

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a. job crafting. b. workplace expansion. c. employee drifting. d. job analysis.

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According to the nativist perspective, children master the structure of language

A) only with deliberate training from parents. B) spontaneously, with only limited language exposure. C) at different rates, depending on their native language. D) quickly, but only in its simplest forms; more complicated forms come much later.

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