Deck 9: Suicide

Question 1

St.Augustine favored suicide as a logical solution to personal problems and thus laid down the rules favoring suicide for Christian doctrine of his time.False

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The word "suicide" was first used in English in the mid 1600s.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

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

Answer 3

False

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

When comparing Catholics, Protestants, and Jews; Protestants have the highest rates of suicide.False

Question 8

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

Question 9

Attempted suicide was considered a felony in 14 states up to the 1970s, but no state considers attempted suicide a felony today.

Question 10

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.

Question 11

The word "suicide" appeared in the Bible seven times.

Question 12

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

Question 13

In the United States, there is a suicide attempt approximately every two minutes and an successful suicide every 20 minutes.

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

An early French sociologist who studied suicide was Emile Durkheim.

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.False

Question 19

More suicides are committed on Monday and Tuesday than in other days of the week.

Question 20

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

Question 21

The meaning of suicide is problematic.True

Question 22

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

Question 23

Social scientist who wrote extensively about alienation was Karl Marx.

Question 24

Derek Humphry wrote the best seller book Final Exit in 1991 in which the reader learns how to commit suicide.True

Question 25

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

Question 26

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 27

A study of the U.S.from 1940 to 1984 by Yang concluded that economic growth seemed to have different impacts on male and female suicide rates.

Question 28

One should be taken seriously if he or she repeatedly talks of killing self.True

Question 29

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 30

The U.S.Division of Vital Statistics does not report deaths among children under the age of 8 years as suicides.

Question 31

Suicide can never be considered a rational act.

Question 32

Research on teenage suicides suggests that they are imitative.True

Question 33

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

Question 34

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

Question 35

Recent studies of U.S.suicides among children under age 14 found strong support for a link between suicide attempts in children and perceptions of low family support.

Question 36

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

Question 37

People who commit suicide tend to never talk about their attempt prior to the act.

Question 38

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

Question 39

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

Question 40

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

Question 41

The dramaturgical approach evolved from:

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

Question 42

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 43

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 44

With which approach is existentialism linked?

A)symbolic interaction
B)conflict
C)phenomenological
D)positivistic organicism
E)diffusion

Question 45

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

Question 46

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 47

Which social scientist wrote extensively about alienation?

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

Question 48

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 49

Age by itself does not cause suicide.True

Question 50

Which of the following is/are correct?

A)individuals with children commit suicide more than childless persons
B)suicide rates are higher in rural than in urban areas
C)fewer suicides occur in the summer than in the winter months
D)the suicide rate is lower for the divorced than the married
E)both a and d of the above

Question 51

Which is the most likely candidate for completed suicide?

A)an elderly woman
B)an elderly man
C)a middle aged woman with an alcohol problem
D)an elderly woman with an alcohol problem
E)an elderly man with an alcohol problem

Question 52

The word "suicide" came into existence in the English language in the:

A)1550s
B)1650s
C)1750s
D)1850s
E)has been in the English language from the beginning

Question 53

The suicide rate is lowest for:

A)married persons
B)single persons
C)widowed persons
D)divorced persons
E)b, c and d above

Question 54

Mental health and religious practices among the elderly seem to be correlated.True
Multiple-Choice Questions

Question 55

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 56

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

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

Question 57

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

Question 58

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 59

The dramaturgical approach follows the ______ approach.

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

Question 60

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 61

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)one at high risk of committing suicide is a middle-age woman
D)suicide rates of teachers and the clergy are rather high
E)all the above are true

Question 62

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 63

Which is correct 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 U.S.
E)active peer involvement is not a way to reduce teen suicides

Question 64

Which of the following is NOT a reason given by Silvia Canetto in addressing the question of 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 along 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 65

The social scientist who wrote extensively about alienation:

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

Question 66

The most frequent method of completed suicide is:

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

Question 67

Author of Final Exit, a recipe book for committing suicide:

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