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According to the text, approximately what percentage of Americans are affiliated with a religious tradition?

90 percent

Dia de los Muertos is

an occasion for remembering the dead.

A "teachable moment" is one in which

an opportunity for learning arises out of ordinary experiences.

According to historian Philippe Ariès, during the period of "tamed death," death was viewed as

an ordinary human experience.

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

Bury

A "teachable" moment is most often best reserved for the classroom.

False

A child's mature understanding of death is seen as a single, unidimensional concept

False

A death café is an online blog started in Europe to help recently widowed men.

False

A euphemism is a shorthand way of referring to an exciting event.

False

A mature concept of death includes causality, which implies that adults will often blame someone or something for a loved one's death.

False

Anatomy dissections historically have been an activity attended only by surgeons and medical students.

False

Both Cocopa and Hopi strive to keep death at a distance.

False

Charnel houses were not opened for fear of spirits escaping.

False

Currently, across the United States, there are fewer than 500 federally recognized Native American nations, few of which share a common set of values, beliefs, and traditions.

False

Elegies and eulogies are both often inscribed as a memorial on a tomb.

False

Following the assassination of President Kennedy, older children were more concerned than younger children about the appearance of the president's body.

False

Gospel and classical music do not include death themes in their compositions.

False

In American blues music, themes of loss, separation, and tribulation are rarely heard.

False

A mature concept of death involves I. universality. II. irreversibility. III. empiricism. IV. causality.

I, II, and IV

Agents of socialization include I. family and peers. II. school. III. employers. IV. religion.

I, II, and IV

According to Erik Erikson's theory, during which developmental stage do children increasingly seek their own direction and purpose?

Initiative vs. guilt

According to Jean Piaget, at what stage does a child learn to use language and symbolic thinking to understand the world?

Preoperational

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

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.

According to Piaget, we construct our knowledge based on what we already know.

True

An example of the term resocialization is the starting of a new job.

True

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.

True

Exercising independence is a hallmark of Erikson's autonomy versus shame and doubt stage.

True

Hawaiian identity is spoken of in terms of connectedness to lands, language, and family.

True

Historically, the Celts practiced burial and cremation.

True

Hopi funeral rituals are attended by few people and held privately.

True

Death songs of Native Americans are

a summary of a person's life.

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.

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

obituaries

All of the following tends to be an important influence on the development of children's attitudes toward death EXCEPT

rising funeral costs.

Epidemiologic transition is BEST defined as the

shift in disease patterns characterized by a redistribution of deaths from the young to the old.

All of the following are aspects of LoDagaa funeral customs EXCEPT

there are five distinct, successive phases.

A death mask was created

to provide a memento for bereaved survivors.

For the Japanese, it is quite ordinary to talk to their dead ancestors.

true

Dia de los Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead, blends Catholic, Spanish, and Indian rituals. This celebration exemplifies an attitude toward death that

views death in an open, humorous, ironic manner.

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

connectedness and independence.

Brief standardized printed statements following the death of an average citizen are called

death notices.

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

Hibakusha is a Japanese word meaning

explosion affected.

In 1963, the University of Minnesota

held the first formal course in death education.

Hannelore Wass observes that the study of death and dying will

help individuals and societies transcend self-interest in favor of concern for others.

After someone dies, conversations about that person move from present to past tense. This form of speech is called the

indicative voice.

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

individualism

As part of Dia de los Muertos, families go to the panteon to __________

prepare for the return of their dead.

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

30 years

Chinese mourning garments have a symbolic purpose similar to

LoDagaa mourning restraints.

A feature length story on the death of someone famous is a/an

Obituary

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.

A charnel house was a

gallery for bones entrusted to the church.

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

has changed over time.

All of the following are musical expressions associated with death EXCEPT

hautsang

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

have a developmentally more mature understanding of death.

Human concern for the dead

predates written history.


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