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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