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themes of suicide are uncommon in music today. (T/F)

FALSE

Media experts say that the "reality violence" on TV news began with coverage of the

Vietnam War

Epidemiologic transition is BEST defined as the

shift in disease patterns characterized by a redistribution of deaths from the young to the old.

The largest area of empirical research in thanatology is concerned with the measurement of attitudes toward death and dying and more particularly

death anxiety

Which of the following is NOT a way in which humor functions relative to death?

discourages empathy

In reviewing the status of research and practice in thanatology, Herman Feifel points out that the

human mind operates on various levels of reality or finite provinces of meaning.

Which of the following are included in Ernest Becker's "four strands of emphasis" in terror management theory (TMT)? 1. The world is a terrifying place 2. There is always an underlying good versus evil struggle, and good ultimately prevails. 3. Because the terror of death is so overwhelming, we conspire to keep it unconscious. 4. The basic motivation for human behavior is the need to control our basic anxiety, to deny the terror of death.

1, 3, and 4

__________ has the longest life expectancy of countries worldwide.

Hong Kong

Which of the following BEST describes a "cosmopolitan" society?

Ideas and practices from other historical periods and cultures are valued and examined.

A death café is an online blog started in Europe to help recently widowed men. (T/F)

FALSE

A euphemism is a shorthand way of referring to an exciting event. (T/F)

FALSE

Elegies and eulogies are both often inscribed as a memorial on a tomb. (T/F)

FALSE

Gospel and classical music do not include death themes in their compositions. (T/F)

FALSE

In American blues music, themes of loss, separation, and tribulation are rarely heard. (T/F)

FALSE

In the nineteenth century, most people typically purchased coffins and baked homemade desserts to bring to the home of grieving friends. (T/F)

FALSE

People who describe themselves as religious suffer more death anxiety than their non-religious counterparts. (T/F)

FALSE

the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt is a small community arts project started in Washington, D.C. (T/F)

FALSE

At the turn of the century, young children were usually involved in activities surrounding the dead, including sleeping in the same room as the corpse. (T/F)

TRUE

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall is an example of contemporary mourning art. (T/F)

TRUE

The disruption of survivors' lives, their ensuing grief and coping is generally given little attention in the media. (T/F)

TRUE

The rapid advancement of technology and social changes has created a "cultural lag." (T/F)

TRUE

Wilson identified celebrity death as a category of death in country music. (T/F)

TRUE

Word choices may reflect changes in how death is experienced at different times. (T/F)

TRUE

popular music devotes significant attention to death. (T/F)

TRUE

According to Kastenbaum, what is defined as "the study of life with death left in"?

Thanatology

Which of the following BEST describes the phrase "medical technology that seems to one person a godsend, extending life, may seem to another a curse"?

The effect of new technology involves personal and social consequences and trade-offs.

Which of the following is NOT an example of Holocaust literature?

Walking Skeleton by Richard Shaw

n reviewing death anxiety research, Robert Kastenbaum says that it

allows individuals to enjoy the illusion that death has been studied.

Themes of loss and death are heard in

classical music, american blues music, and laments

What term do social scientists use to describe the phenomenon of societies falling behind in dealing with new challenges resulting from rapid technological and social change?

cultural lag

Avoiding words like dead or dying, instead using phrases in which loved ones "pass away," the deceased is "laid to rest" and the corpse is "remains", is an example of

euphemisms

What are the two leading causes of death in the United States?

heart disease & cancer

In 1963, the University of Minnesota

held the first formal course in death education.

Which of the following factors does NOT affect our familiarity with death?

political decision making

Hannelore Wass observes that the study of death and dying will

help individuals and societies transcend self-interest in favor of concern for others.

Research into death anxiety has been characterized by Kastenbaum as

thanatology's own assembly line

What is the largest ongoing community arts project in America?

the AIDs Memorial Quilt

In his emphasis relevant to terror management theory, Ernest Becker addressed

the need to control our basic anxiety and to deny the terror of death.

Even when curative treatments have ended, the effort to control circumstances around death and dying so that it comes out "right" is termed

managed death

Depictions of death in the mass media, in which the symbolic use of death contributes to an "irrational dread of dying and thus to a diminished vitality and self-direction in life" is referred to as

mean world syndrome

Which of the following is NOT an example of the dimension of sociological thanatology?

pain & symptom control

In Gerbner's "mean world syndrome", the symbolic use of death contributes to 1. an irrational dread of dying. 2. diminished vitality. 3. diminished self-direction in life. 4. an increased hoarding of weapons.

1, 2, and 3

Approximately how much has the average life expectancy in the United States increased since 1900?

30 years

The establishment of death studies, in modern times, can be traced to explorations of death by

Freud

The modern scientific approach to the study of death is usually traced to a symposium organized in 1956 by

Herman Feifel

According to George Gerbner, the "mean world syndrome" describes depictions of death in the mass media as embedded in a structure of violence that conveys

a heightened sense of danger

According to Ulrich Beck, a German scholar and observer of the "cosmopolitan society," the human condition in the present century

cannot be understood nationally or locally but only globally.

In literature, the meaning of death is often explored as it relates to the individual as well as

society