Geron 139 Quiz 2

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"I have done my own work and have neither given nor received unauthorized assistance on this work."

True

According to Ken Doka, the key developmental issues of adolescence are called the three I's: identity, independence, and intimacy.

True

Acquiring a mature understanding of death is part of the developmental process known as socialization. This process involves learning and internalizing the norms, values, rules, and behaviors of society.

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Agents of socialization regarding death include family, school and peers, mass media and children's literature, and religion.

True

Brent & Speece identified four primary components of a child's development and understanding of death: Universality, Irreversibility, Nonfunctionality & Causality.

True

By observing children's behavior, developmental psychologists devise theories, or models, to describe the characteristic concerns and interests of children at various ages.

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Culture can be defined as a group of people who share a common culture, a common territory, and a common identity; and who feel themselves to constitute a unified and distinct entity which involves interacting in socially strutured relationships.

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Life experiences—particularly those that involve an encounter with significant loss or death—are powerful in shaping attitudes and beliefs.

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Research suggests that when the bond between an animal and its carer is broken by death, the significance of that loss should be recognized as a natural occasion for mourning.

True

The family is the first source of death education in our lives, and its influence continues throughout our lives.

True

The focus of Paiget's research was on the cognitive transformations that occur during childhood.

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The understanding of death evolves as experiences stimulate reevaluation of previously held knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes.

True

Theoretical frameworks such as Erikson's psychosocial development and Piaget's cognitive transformations are useful for comprehending the developmental sequence of the acquisition of a mature concept of death.