If Edgar is exhibiting maladaptive behavior, we would expect this behavior to often result in
a. acute psychotic behavior that would be readily apparent to any observer.
b. statistically rare behavior that would be offensive to most people in a culture.
c. serious psychological discomfort, disability, and/or a loss of control of thoughts, behaviors, or feelings.
d. rigidly conforming mannerisms and mutism that would incapacitate the person.
ANSWER: c
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A) Animals cannot learn to associate particular words, signs, and symbols with specific meanings. B) Animals can learn human language, but prefer not to. C) Animals can learn to communicate with symbols and signs, but there is not clear evidence that they can combine these symbols into complex phrases. D) Animals raised with humans from birth can learn language just as easily as a human child.
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