Death and Dying chapters 1,2,4

Jean Piaget's model of development emphasizes

cognitive transformations

Lullabies and nursery rhymes often contain

themes of death and violence

Veatch 4 ways to define death

1. Irreversible loss of flow of vital fluids 2. Irreversible loss of soul from body 3. Irreversible loss of capacity for bodily integration 4. Irreversible loss of capacity for consciousness or social interaction

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

All living things must die

In Piaget's model, what phase is marked by the formulating concepts that are abstract or symbolic?

Formal operations

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

Industry vs. inferiority (also known as industrial age)

According to Erikson's theory, which stage do children increasingly seek their own direction and purpose? Also bodily mutilation and disfigurement are one of the death related fears.

Initiative vs. guilt

What subcomponent of universality makes explicit the understanding not only that all living things die but also that each living thing will die?

Personal morality

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

Preoperational

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

Preoperational

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

Preschool

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

Preschool years

Important influences on the development of children's attitudes towards death

Social network, children's literature, family

What concept describes opportunities for learning that arise out of unplanned or unexpected occurrences?

Teachable moments

Personal mortality is a subcomponent of universality

True

Through socialization, younger members of a society acquire knowledge from older generations

True

A mature concept of death involves

Universality, irreversibility, causality

The text cites that lullaby "Rockabye Baby" to illustrate the point that

a number of lullabies contain messages about human and animal death

Agents of socialization include

family and peers, school, religion

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

have a developmentally more mature understanding of death

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

Best describe socialization

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

In Piaget's model, the first two years of life are characterized as the

sensorimotor

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

socialization

While more young people than ever claim no religion, there seems to be a growing interest in

spirituality

The model of human development devised by Erikson focuses on

stages of psychosocial development

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

true

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

true

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

Erik Erikson