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