Death & Dying Exam 1

Which of the following best defines socialization?

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

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

Modern law views crime as acts committed against the state rather than as acts committed against individuals.

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 theorist is associated with the developmental model that emphasizes changes in attitudes toward death during different psychosocial stages

Erik Erikson

A child's mature understanding of death is seen as a single unidimensional concept. T or F?

False

Encounters with violent death do not alter a child's understanding of death. T or F?

False

People who describe themselves as religious suffer more death anxiety than their non-religious counterparts. T or F?

False

A significant difference between a medical examiner and a coroner is that the

Coroners are elected officials; medical examiners are usually appointed. Medical examiners are qualified medical doctors with advanced training in forensic pathology

Family has a large impact on a child's understanding of death. T or F?

True

Homicide is separated into two categories, criminal and non-criminal. T or F?

True

In American blues music, themes of loss, separation, and tribulation are rarely heard. T or F?

True

Intermingling of the generations was normal part of daily life in earlier times. T or F?

True

Teachable moments are opportunities or interactions for learning about death that are unexpected or unplanned. T or F?

True

There is currently a shortage of organs for transplant. T or F?

True

This class meets on T/TH at 12:00. T or F?

True

Under what circumstances would the irreversible loss of flow of vital fluids approach to defining death be unclear?

When a patient's vital functions are artificially sustained by machines

Discuss the death penalty. How do you feel about the death penalty? How can it influence our development of concept of death?

a person is killed by the state as a punishment for a crime.

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

cellular death

Themes of loss and death are heard in

classical music, American blues, laments, etc.

The largest area of empirical research in thanatology is concerned with the measurement of attitudes towards death & dying, more particularly

death anxiety

Does not influence our familiarity with death

delegating to professionals???

Which of the following is NOT a way in which humor functions relative to death?

discourages empathy

Avoiding words like dead or dying, instead using phases in which loved ones "pass away", the decreased in "laid to rest" and the corpse is remains", is an example of

euphemism

Children who have had first-hand encounters with death tend to

have a developmentally more mature understanding of death

Historically, death has been ascertained by the absence of

heartbeat and breathing

Does NOT affect our familiarity w death

political decision making

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

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

preschool years

the coffin bell-pull device was invented to

prevent premature burials

When disasters involve traumatic death, goals include

reducing distress, restoring function, minimizing recovery time

A mature concept of death includes an understanding of all of the following EXCEPT

reversibility

Tends NOT to be an important influence of the development of children's attitudes towards death

rising funeral costs

Except when required by law, an autopsy can be performed only after

the next of kin's consent

The most important legal procedure following a death is considered to be the

the official registration of death

Lullabies and nursery rhymes often contains

themes of death and violence.

NOT included in Veatch's four approach to defining and determining death?

irreversible loss of communication with a higher spirit

A person who kills a member of his or her family is usually judged by society to be

less threatening

Research indicates thats capital punishment is

not an effective deterrent to murder

A person who kills a member of his or her family is usually judged by society to be

not as threatening as killing a stranger

Deaths of the famous are likely to be announced on the newspaper's front page as well as via feature-length

obituaries.

Approximately how much has the average life expectancy in the United States increased since 1900?

30 years

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

All living things must eventually die

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

Preoperational

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

socialization