Deck 3: Growing up With Death

Question 1

Death on television is often viewed as reversible.True

Answer 1

True

Question 2

A latent function of a death in the family is that of a family reunion.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The permanency of death is usually clear to a three-year old child.False

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Mother Goose nursery rhymes are uniformly ideal stories to help a child go to sleep at night.

Question 5

Psychologist Robert Kavanaugh refers to children as "little people" or "compact cars," rather than Cadillacs (big people), and notes that they should be able to handle any situation adults can handle comfortably.

Question 6

The two periods of adolescence are 12 to 15 and 16 to 19.

Question 7

An adult should not be honest with children when talking about dying and death.

Question 8

According to Ginsburg and Opper, chidren's capacity to grieve is related to their level of cognitive development.

Question 9

Between the ages of six and twelve, the evolution of the concept of death as a permanent cessation of life begins.

Question 10

There seems to be a fascination with death during the adolescent years as witnessed by films and music produced for adolescents.

Question 11

Maria Nagy in her studies of Hungarian children found that children aged five to nine personified death and represented death as a live person or some variation such as an angel or a skeleton.

Question 12

Children should be discouraged from crying when someone dies, since crying reveals weakness and immaturity.

Question 13

Direct answers to children's questions about dying and death only confuse them, thus one should be indirect with responses.

Question 14

By six months of age most infants can conceptualize death.

Question 15

Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget argued that it is not until the late teen years and early twenties that one is capable of genuinely abstract thought processes.

Question 16

According to Orbach, children's concepts of death in humans and animals showed that death in humans is easier to comprehend than death in animals.

Question 17

Ernest Becker in The Denial of Death argues that fear and denial of death are basic dynamics for everyone.True

Question 18

If possible, euphemisms should be avoided when talking to children about death.

Question 19

Anthropologist Colin Turnbull describes death as being like it was before birth--a state of nothingness.

Question 20

Media deaths allow children to learn about the true consequences of someone dying and to learn that death is a part of the real world.False

Question 21

Baby Boomers are individuals born between 1946 and 1964.
Multiple-Choice Questions

Question 22

Which is true regarding the study of death by Maria Nagy with nearly 400 Hungarian children?

A)children aged 3 to 5 found death to be irreversible
B)children aged 5 to 9 personified death
C)children over age 9 saw death as final and universal
D)both b and c above are correct
E)none of the above

Question 23

The first childhood death experience occurs around the average age of ________ years.

A)3
B)6
C)8
D)11
E)none of the above

Question 24

Though the elderly tend to think of death more often than younger adults, they appear to have less fear concerning death.

Question 25

Young adults reject death because:

A)they probably have not faced the death of a significant other
B)they do not yet accept the inevitability of death
C)they are just preparing for the hopes, challenges, and success of life
D)all of the above
E)both a and b of the above

Question 26

Sigmund Freud traced conceptions of death to:

A)our need to strive and overcome our early sensitivity to death
B)our earliest feelings concerning sexuality and fears of being punished for them
C)our socialization during adolescence
D)our elementary school days when first leaving the security of the home and entering a new and different world of peers
E)both a and c of the above

Question 27

Advice on crying given by former professional NFL player Rosie Greer is:

A)crying is for a "sissy"
B)it is okay to cry
C)it is okay for little girls to cry but not little boys
D)crying is for women and children but not men
E)Rosie Greer played football and gave no advice about crying

Question 28

The social scientist who argued that fear and denial of death are basic dynamics for everyone was:

A)Sigmund Freud
B)Alfred Adler
C)Ernest Becker
D)Jean Piaget
E)Erik Erikson

Question 29

Research findings suggest that differences in death anxiety appear to be more a function of religiosity than age.True

Question 30

Gerontology is the study of the biological, psychological, and social aspects of aging.True

Question 31

In explaining death to children one should:

A)avoid euphemisms
B)use only euphemisms
C)be dishonest
D)not answer the child's questions
E)both c and d above are correct

Question 32

Erik Erikson's last stage of the life cycle is called:

A)senescence
B)young adulthood
C)play age
D)adolescence
E)none of the above

Question 33

Society is held together by rituals.

Question 34

The individual who encouraged psychologists to employ better methods of research in the developmental approach to understanding concepts of death was:

A)Sigmund Freud
B)Ernest Becker
C)Herman Feifel
D)Jean Piaget
E)Erik Erikson

Question 35

Emily Dickinson wrote extensively about death and dying.True

Question 36

The middle-age years have been labeled the "novice phase" of the developmental cycle.False

Question 37

Regarding crying, children, and death, the text advises that:

A)if a child cries, he or she should be spanked
B)the child should be warned that crying reveals weakness and immaturity and that only a "sissy" cries
C)the child should be told that it is okay to cry and that crying is a normal behavior
D)both a and b of the above are correct
E)none of the above

Question 38

Middle-age is between the ages of 30 and 45, according to the Census Bureau.

Question 39

The use of a word or phrase that is less expressive or direct but considered less distasteful or less offensive than another work or phrase is called a(n):

A)euphemism
B)etiology
C)cryonics
D)cultigen
E)apnea

Question 40

A school of psychology which moved away from Freud toward more emphasis in therapy on coping strategies and strengths of the person rather than upon the unconscious is called _____ psychology.

A)ego
B)developmental
C)clinical
D)life cycle
E)behaviorist

Question 41

The idea of a "life review" was that of gerontologist:
A)Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

A)Robert Butler
B)Howad Becker
D)Emile Durkheim

Question 42

The "panic begins" for many middle-aged Americans regarding the thought of death.Which is/are correct reason(s) for this?

A)realization that the remaining years of life are fewer than those already lived
B)realization that after one's parents are dead, the "buffer zone" is gone
C)if one's job depends on physical vigor, he/she begins to realize that he/she is not getting stronger
D)all of the above are correct
E)only a and b of the above are correct

Question 43

"Adolescence" includes the ages:

A)12-15
B)12-19
C)15-19
D)13-17
E)none of the above

Question 44

Which is/are true regarding the elderly in the United States?

A)though the elderly do not seem reluctant to talk about dying and death, others are reluctant to talk to them about dying and death
B)research suggests that older adults think of death more often than younger adults but appear to have less fear concerning death
C)older adults tend to see their lives as having less prospects for the future and less value
D)research suggests that the widowed tend to be more fearful of death than the elderly married or remarried
E)all of the above are true

Question 45

"Middle-age" is between _____ and _____ years.

A)30, 60
B)45, 65
C)35, 55
D)40, 50
E)30, 40