Deck 9: Suicide and Other Sudden, Unnatural Traumatic Deaths

Question 1

Because suicides are so disruptive to family systems,at the time of a suicide surviving families often receive greater social support than that normally offered to those grieving other kinds of death.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

People who commit suicide rarely talk about their attempt prior to the act.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Suicide rates are higher in rural areas than in urban areas.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

A person who repeatedly talks of killing himself or herself should be taken seriously.

Question 5

Men with AIDS were many times more likely than average men to commit suicide.

Question 6

The dramaturgical perspective analyzes behavior from the standpoint of the observer rather than from the subjective standpoint of participants.

Question 7

The most frequent method of completed suicide is overdose on drugs.

Question 8

Egoistic suicide occurs when the person is inadequately integrated into society.

Question 9

Altruistic suicide results from the lack of regulation of the individual when the norms governing existence no longer control that individual.

Question 10

In studying attempted suicide from the existentialist philosophy perspective,researchers would conduct interviews with people having attempted suicide to determine what they were thinking during their crisis.

Question 11

"Alienation" is a feeling of not being in control of a situation.

Question 12

An early French sociologist who studied suicide was Emile Durkheim.

Question 13

In studying suicide the dramaturgical perspective would look at how family members acted after a suicide and would assess the meaning of the death to the family.

Question 14

Anomic suicide happens when the individual is overly integrated into the society and is willing to die for the group.

Question 15

Suicide gestures are motivated by a need for aid and support from others,whereas completed suicides are acts of resignation.

Question 16

Fatalistic suicide suggests that one may receive too much control by society and feel oppressed under extremely strict rules.

Question 17

Until the middle of the 20th century,the Roman Catholic Church denied Catholic ritual and burial to those who took their own lives.

Question 18

Karoshi in Japan,where people die from over work,is a form of egoistic suicide.

Question 19

The suicide rate is lower for single persons than married individuals.

Question 20

The word suicide appeared in the Old Testament in the Bible 14 times.

Question 21

Age by itself does not cause suicide.

Question 22

Suicide rates among blacks are substantially lower than among whites in the United States.

Question 23

Studies of persons with AIDS show that they are much more prone to suicide than non-AIDS individuals.

Question 24

A white male over the age of 85 is in a most vulnerable category for suicide in the United States.

Question 25

Mental health and religious practices among the elderly seem to be correlated.

Question 26

Suicide deaths are rare between the ages of 5 and 14.

Question 27

A social scientist who wrote extensively about alienation was Karl Marx.

Question 28

Suicide has historically been viewed in different ways in different places.

Question 29

Research on teenage suicides suggests that they are imitative.

Question 30

Derek Humphry wrote the bestselling book Final Exit,in which the reader learns how to commit suicide.

Question 31

While recent data in the United States indicate that society rejects suicide less today under some specific conditions,suicide continues to be viewed as an undesirable and abnormal act.

Question 32

Industrialized countries tend to have higher suicide rates than poor,developing countries.

Question 33

A recent Gallup survey revealed that physicians often bring up the issue of suicide with their elderly patients.

Question 34

In the late 1800s French sociologist Emile Durkheim noted that suicide is related to one's degree of social integration.

Question 35

Suicide can never be considered a rational act.

Question 36

Men attempt suicide more often,but women more often complete suicide.

Question 37

The global mortality rate from suicide is one death every 40 seconds.

Question 38

The meaning of suicide is problematic.

Question 39

U.S.suicide behavior among children under age 14 seems to be linked to suicide attempts,family turmoil,and stress.

Question 40

For every suicide around the world there are at least 20 suicide attempts.

Question 41

Suicide rates in Afghanistan have outweighed combat deaths by a two-to-one ratio.

Question 42

Which perspective acknowledges that human existence is finite and that we all must face death?

A)Dramaturgical
B)Structural functional
C)Conflict
D)Existentialist philosophy
E)Symbolic interaction

Question 43

When an individual is inadequately integrated into the society,this type of suicide is known as __________.

A)egoistic
B)altruistic
C)anomic
D)fatalistic
E)cluster

Question 44

If a person does not feel in control and does not feel a part of a situation,this may result in a feeling of powerlessness and hopelessness,a condition known as __________.

A)altruism
B)alienation
C)role conflict
D)ethnocentrism
E)cultural inertia

Question 45

There seems to be no uniformity regarding US states' roadside memorial policies.

Question 46

Evidence proves that capital punishment deters crime.

Question 47

PTSD is often associated with sudden,violent deaths of young persons.

Question 48

When did the word "suicide" come into existence in the English language?

A)1550s
B)1650s
C)1750s
D)1850s
E)1950s

Question 49

With which approach is existentialism linked?

A)Symbolic interaction
B)Conflict
C)Phenomenological
D)Positivistic organisms
E)Diffusion

Question 50

The dramaturgical approach follows the ______ approach.

A)emic
B)etic
C)enoch
D)theater
E)None of the above.

Question 51

A state of normlessness and lack of regulation of the individual is a type of suicide known as __________.

A)altruistic
B)egoistic
C)anomic
D)fatalistic
E)cluster

Question 52

Suicide risk assessment begins at admission and continues throughout hospitalization.

Question 53

When an individual is overly integrated into society and willing to die for the group,this type of suicide is known as ______________.

A)anomic
B)egoistic
C)fatalistic
D)altruistic
E)dramaturgical

Question 54

A business person committing suicide after a stock market crash or one suddenly losing his or her job would likely be a(n)________ suicide.

A)fatalistic
B)altruistic
C)anomic
D)egoistic
E)rational

Question 55

Suicide in which the individual is not insane and is aware of what he or she is doing is called __________.

A)altruistic
B)anomic
C)rational
D)dramaturgical
E)cluster

Question 56

Which social scientist wrote extensively about alienation?

A)Robert Merton
B)Carl Sandburg
C)Gunnar Myrdal
D)Karl Marx
E)Howard Becker

Question 57

Which is the most likely candidate for completed suicide?

A)Elderly woman
B)Elderly man
C)Middle-aged woman with an alcohol problem
D)Elderly woman with an alcohol problem
E)Elderly man with an alcohol problem

Question 58

Japanese kamikaze pilots of World War II are an example of ______ suicide.

A)egoistic
B)rational
C)altruistic
D)anomic
E)fatalistic

Question 59

Capital punishment is legal in all 50 US states.

Question 60

The dramaturgical approach evolved from

A)symbolic interactionism.
B)structural functionalism.
C)conflict theory.
D)existentialist philosophy.
E)the psychoanalytical perspective.

Question 61

The most frequent method of attempted suicide among women in the United States is __________.

A)drug overdose
B)firearms
C)hanging
D)toxic gas inhalation
E)jumping from high places

Question 62

Homicide is the leading cause of death for

A)African-American males between 15 and 34 years old
B)Hispanic males between 19 and 22 years old
C)Chinese-American males between 18 and 25 years old
D)Cuban-American males between 21 and 26 years old

Question 63

The most frequent method of completed suicide in the United States is __________.

A)drug overdose
B)jumping from high places
C)toxic gas inhalation
D)hanging
E)firearms

Question 64

Which is not suggested as a way to help in a suicidal crisis?

A)Stay with a suicidal person.
B)Urge professional help.
C)Do not tell others.
D)Be supportive.
E)Trust your own judgment.

Question 65

Which of the following is not a reason given by Silvia Canetto to explain why older women are less suicidal than older men?

A)Older women are more likely to seek professional help.
B)Limited access to money has been a longstanding problem for women,yet for older men financial difficulties may be a new experience.
C)Older men living alone tend to be more isolated than older women living alone.
D)Losing a spouse may disrupt social support and emotional functioning more for a woman than for a man.
E)None of the above.

Question 66

The social scientist who wrote extensively about alienation is __________.

A)Emile Durkheim
B)Max Weber
C)Karl Marx
D)Thorstein Veblen
E)P.A.Sorokin

Question 67

Though suicide rates in most countries are higher for males than females,in ____ women have a higher suicide rate than men.

A)the United Kingdom
B)Poland
C)Uganda
D)Spain
E)China

Question 68

The intentional and sometimes unintentional accidental killing of another person is the definition of

A)Genocide
B)Insecticide
C)homicide
D)geronicide

Question 69

The suicide rate of Native Americans is

A)greater than the national average.
B)less than the national average.
C)about the same as the national average.
D)not determined.

Question 70

Suicide rates by ethnicity in the United States are highest for

A)American natives
B)whites
C)blacks
D)Hispanics

Question 71

In Hong Kong,the most common method of suicide is

A)jumping from a high place.
B)firearms.
C)a drug overdose.
D)burning up.
E)drowning.

Question 72

Which is True regarding suicide?

A)People who commit suicide tend to talk about their attempt prior to the act.
B)More suicides occur in lower socioeconomic families than any other socioeconomic group.
C)Middle-aged women are at high risk of committing suicide.
D)Suicide rates of teachers and the clergy are rather high.
E)All the above are True.

Question 73

Regionally,_____ has higher rates of suicide than other regions.

A)Latin America
B)Western Asia
C)Europe
D)North America
E)Australia

Question 74

Which is True regarding adolescent suicide?

A)Adolescent suicide is not unique to contemporary times.
B)Suicide is especially common among 13- and 14-year-olds.
C)Suicide is the leading cause of death among adolescents today.
D)Geographically,Nevada is last in youth suicides in the United States.
E)Active peer involvement is not a way to reduce teen suicides.

Question 75

In the United States there are approximately _____ deaths from suicide each year.

A)12,000
B)22,000
C)33,000
D)45,000
E)58,000

Question 76

The one universal theme amount roadside memorials in the United States is

A)usually painted black
B)tend to be secular
C)usually found only in cities
D)predominately religious in nature

Question 77

The author of Final Exit,a recipe book for committing suicide,is __________.

A)Derek Humphry
B)Emile Durkheim
C)Howard Becker
D)Karl Marx
E)Howard Beacher