Death and Dying Ch 1-4

Avoiding "dying" and using terms like "passed on"

Euphemisms

What is the irreversible process of deterioration in the body's systems and organs?

Cellular death

What term refers to the uprooting and restructuring of basic attitudes, values, or identities?

Resocialization

What is the largest ongoing community arts project in America?

The AIDS Memorial Quilt

In Japanese homes, an alter for honoring deceased relatives and ancestors is called a

butsudan.

A death mask was created

to provide a memento for bereaved survivors.

Research indicates that capital punishment is

not an effective deterrent to murder.

Approximately how much has the average life expectancy increased since 1990?

30 years

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

heightened sense of danger.

What is the leading cause of death in the US?

Heart disease and cancer.

How does the separation of civil and criminal law affect the modern system of justice?

Modern law views homicide as an act committed against the state rather than against the individual.

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.

The acquisition of a mature understanding of death is part of the developmental process known as

socialization.

Regarding a mature concept of death, which of the following is true about universality?

All living things must eventually die.

What term is best used to describe African customs such as prayer, sacrifice or liberation, and other acts of respect shown to decrease members of the community?

Ancestor worship

According to the Uniform Determination of Death Act, an individual is dead when he/she has irreversible

Circulatory and respiratory cessation. AND Absence of functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem.

What can be defined as "all that in human society which is socially rather than biologically transmitted?"

Culture

Which of the following best defines socialization

Learning and internalizing the norms, rules, and values of the society in which a person lives.

When asked, "What makes things die?" a child responds, "You can die if you swallow a dirty bug." According to Piaget's theory, this child is probably in which developmental stage?

Preoperational

In Erikson's model, approximately what age marks the beginning of the child's moral sense?

Preschool and kindergarten years.

By what age do most children understand that death is a changed state?

Preschool years

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

Thanatology

The first formal course in death education at the American university was held at

University of Minnesota in 1963

TV violence began with coverage of

Vietnam War

Which of the following is NOT matched correctly

Voluntary manslaughter; the killing of another human being in performance of a public duty.

Which is NOT an example of Holocaust literature?

Walking Skeleton by Richard Shaw

In traditional Hindu households, death is

a communal affair.

A charnel house was

a gallery for bones entrusted to the church.

In general, Native Americans view death as

a normal part of the life cycle.

In reviewing death anxiety research, Kastenbaum says it

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

A "teachable moment" is one in which

an opportunity for learning arises out of ordinary experiences.

In the approach to defining death based on irreversible loss of the soul from the body, what is commonly believed to be related to the

breath or heart.

Humanity received its name from the Latin root word humare, which means to

bury.

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

death anxiety.

According to Kellehear's description and social history of dying, the meaning of death

has changed over time.

In traditional societies, whether grief is expressed by loud wails or quiet tears, there is a common tendency to

have a deep respect for the soul of the dead.

Children who have had first hand encounters with death tend to

have a developmentally more mature understanding of death.

Until the nineteenth century, the customary deathbed scene

included family.

Around the twentieth century, simple grave markers begin to appear as did elaborate effigies. This was a part of increasing emphasis on

individualism.

In Erikson's model, the years from about six to the beginning of puberty correspond to what stage?

industry vs inferiority

In Erikson's model of psychosocial development, in what period is bodily mutilation and disfigurement one of the death related fears?

initiative vs guilt

One aspect of an "invisible death" is that death is

less part of common experience.

Thanatos, from Greek mythology, is generally understood as a response to

personification of death.

The Dance of Death

reflects ideas about inevitability of death.

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

society.

The model of human development devised by Erikson focuses on

stages of psychosocial development.

Brief standardized statements that follow the death of a citizen

Death notice.

What is the fallacy of making judgements about others in terms of ones own cultural assumptions and ideas?

Ethnocentrism

The story of Little Red Riding Hood in Chinese tradition differs from the Western version in which of the following ways?

The three children in the Chinese version work together as a group to kill the wolf.

Jean Piaget's model of development emphasizes

cognitive transformations.

According to Erikson psychosocial development depends significantly on developing a sense of identity and is linked to the individual's

connectedness and independence.