Death and Dying chapters 1,2,4
Jean Piaget's model of development emphasizes
cognitive transformations
Lullabies and nursery rhymes often contain
themes of death and violence
Veatch 4 ways to define death
1. Irreversible loss of flow of vital fluids 2. Irreversible loss of soul from body 3. Irreversible loss of capacity for bodily integration 4. Irreversible loss of capacity for consciousness or social interaction
Regarding a mature concept of death, which of the following is true about universality?
All living things must die
In Piaget's model, what phase is marked by the formulating concepts that are abstract or symbolic?
Formal operations
In Erikson model, the years from about six to the beginning of puberty correspond to what stage?
Industry vs. inferiority (also known as industrial age)
According to Erikson's theory, which stage do children increasingly seek their own direction and purpose? Also bodily mutilation and disfigurement are one of the death related fears.
Initiative vs. guilt
What subcomponent of universality makes explicit the understanding not only that all living things die but also that each living thing will die?
Personal morality
According to Piaget, at what stage does a child learn to use language and symbolic thinking to understand the world?
Preoperational
When asked "What makes things die?" a child responds, "You can die if you swallow a dirty bug" According to Paiget's theory this child is probably in which developmental stage?
Preoperational
In Erikson's model, approximately what age marks the beginning of the childs moral sense?
Preschool
By what age do most children understand that death is a changed state?
Preschool years
Important influences on the development of children's attitudes towards death
Social network, children's literature, family
What concept describes opportunities for learning that arise out of unplanned or unexpected occurrences?
Teachable moments
Personal mortality is a subcomponent of universality
True
Through socialization, younger members of a society acquire knowledge from older generations
True
A mature concept of death involves
Universality, irreversibility, causality
The text cites that lullaby "Rockabye Baby" to illustrate the point that
a number of lullabies contain messages about human and animal death
Agents of socialization include
family and peers, school, religion
Children who have had first-hand encounters with death tend to
have a developmentally more mature understanding of death
In discussing how people understand death, the term "noncorporeal continuity" refers to the idea that
human beings survive in some form after the death of the physical body
Best describe socialization
learning and internalizing the norms, rules, and values of the society in which a person lives
In Piaget's model, the first two years of life are characterized as the
sensorimotor
The acquisition of a mature understanding of death is part of the developmental process known as
socialization
While more young people than ever claim no religion, there seems to be a growing interest in
spirituality
The model of human development devised by Erikson focuses on
stages of psychosocial development
According to Piaget, we construct our knowledge based on what we already know
true
Exercisinf independence is a hallmark of Erikson's autonomy versus shame and doubt stage
true
This theorist is associated with the developmental model that emphasizes change in attitudes toward death during different psychosocial stages...
Erik Erikson