PSYCH-35
Themes of loss and death are heard in
classical music, american blues music, and laments
A mature concept of death involves
universality irreversibility causality
The establishment of death studies, in modern times, can be traced to explorations of death by
Freud
In Erikson's model, around what age marks the beginning of the child's moral sense?
Preschool and kindergarten years
A "teachable moment" is one in which
an opportunity for learning arises out of ordinary experiences
The largest area of empirical research in thanatology is concerned with the measurement of attitudes toward death and dying and more particularly
death anxiety
In traditional Hawaiian culture, mele kanikau may have been carefully composed or spontaneous and used
during the funeral procession
Agents of socialization include
family, peers, school, religion
Noncorporeal continuity
human beings survive in some form after the death of the physical body
Which of the following best defines socialization?
learning and internalizing the norms, rules, and values of the society in which a person lives
Suse Lowenstein's work Dark Elegy functions as a reminder that
life is fragile and survivors have to live with the loss.
Thanatos, from Greek mythology, is generally understood as a response to the
personification of death
Which of the following factors does not affect our familiarity with death?
political decision making
By what age do most children understand that death is a changed state?
preschool years
The acquisition of a mature understanding of death is part of the developmental process known as
socialization
The model of human development devised by Erickson focuses on
stages of psychosocial development
According to Kastenbaum, what is defined as "the study of life with death left in?"
thanatology
Ernest Beaker's Terror Management Theory
The world is a terrifying place Because the terror of death is so overwhelming, we conspire to keep it unconscious The basic motivation for human behavior is the need to control our basic anxiety, to deny the terror of death