unit 1 Flashcards
personal experience with dying/death influences our:
attitudes, beliefs, feelings
one study that followed patients through their postoperative period found that:
positive religious coping styles means less pain or distress
the apprehensiveness/restlessness we carry around with us in everyday life is sometimes called:
trait anxiety
“our fears can be tracked back to our sense of vulnerability” this is at the core of what theory?
existential
studies show that people who sign organ donor cards are:
less anxious about death, more self-reliant, and feel more effective
which is NOT true about living wills?
most people in the US have initiated a living will
questions have arisen about gore in media and whether it serves to _____ death
deprersonalize
upon viewing his friend Ivan Ilych’s corpse, Peter Ivanovich:
tried to distance himself from Ilych
a study conducted in the US shows that:
people with strong religious beliefs have less fear in later years
which is NOT consistent with terror management theory?
having personal, accurate views about dying serves as protection
I fully comprehend my death but fight like hell for life. what is this called?
resistance
“it would be better if I did not let others know how I feel right now” is an example of:
selective response
_____ is a type of person who is quick to introduce a fatalistic statement.
fatalist
which is NOT true bout psychoanalytic theory?
death anxiety comes into consciousness as we learn to comprehend our own annihilation
“we can’t fear death because we can’t imagine our own” is what theory?
early psychoanalytic theory
prolongation of life was a primary mission of:
alchemy
which is NOT consistent with edge theory?
consistent with existential theory
Kastenbaum said that Hollywood portrayals of death do not emphasize:
open communication
“a touch of indigestion, that’s all” is an example of:
denial
of the 100 people Kevorkian “assisted” in death, how many were terminally ill?
less than 1/3
dying reality is acknowledged, but person stops short of realizing the whole situation to the full extent:
compartmentalizing
person is not “in denial” but simply directing their attention to what seems most important:
selective attention
this is NOT one of Kastenbaum’s criticisms regarding death anxiety scales:
studies often involve resurveying participants many times (they weren’t resurveyed)
leading cause of death in general is:
heart disease
woman was sweeping floor of a destroyed home after a tornado. this was an example of:
denial (temporary)
most self-report studies show _____ levels of death anxiety.
low to moderate
studies regarding age and death anxiety show that death anxiety:
shows either no age difference or decreases somewhat in the later adult years
a study found that those who crossed the street in a high risk-taking manner were:
amore likely to have attempted suicide in the past
most self-report studies show that:
women have higher death anxiety scores than men
the earliest childhood memory reported by most adults is an experience of:
death
hospitalized patients are most likely to be treated as socially dead if they are on a ________ trajectory
lingering
Corr’s coping theory of the dying process advocates:
recognition that the dying person is alive and attempting to cope with the situation
Most students in death education courses expect their deaths will be:
at home with loving companions
Kastenbaum’s comparison of statements, “he has passed the crisis point and has a real chance of pulling through” and “he is out of immediate danger but probably won’t survive very long,” is comparing the ________ trajectory to the ________ trajectory.
expected; lingering
while considered groundbreaking at the time, the work of Kübler-Ross has come to be regarded as limited in applicability because:
acceptance as a final stage and necessary condition for coping effectively with one’s own impending death is not always attainable or realistic, AND the concept of universal stages has led to misuse by some who prefer to oversimplify the experiences of the dying person
Corr’s four challenges in the developmental-coping mode of the dying process include all of the following EXCEPT the:
intellectual
Weisman and Worden found that hospitalized patients who died more rapidly than others with the same physical condition had:
fewer friends, more distant relationships with parents, and more often expressed the wish to die
a national survey commissioned by Last Acts found that most:
people prefer to die at home, but most die in a hospital
the last four stages in the Buddhist perspective on dying are:
a series of visionary experiences, concluding with the pure light of death.
direct care to the dying person is usually provided:
more often by women
generally, end-of-life care planning occurs among all of the groups below EXCEPT:
LBGT members
the patient who is alert, exercising some options, and about to undergo a very risky procedure that will either save or end his life is experiencing the ________ trajectory.
pointed
the hospital staff is acting with a sense of urgency and interactions between staff and family are tense. This is most likely to occur during the:
expected quick trajectory
the patient who is not in acute danger at the moment, but whose life might suddenly be threatened at any time, is experiencing the ________ trajectory.
crisis
“medicalization of dying” refers to:
the heavy surveillance that has been undertaken by the medical-bureaucratic complex of the passage from life to death
Kastenbaum believes that more aged people are dying by slowly slipping away, usually alone, partly because physicians still have a tendency to view patients’ deaths as:
a failure on their part so they avoid the patient
regarding the influence of the dying person’s age, Kastenbaum observed all of the following EXCEPT that age:
affects the order in which the person moves through the stages of dying
a 75-year-old stonemason in a geriatric hospital used ________ to communicate his eventual death by stating that he was expecting the undertaker and it was time to call his sisters, who were already dead.
crazy talk
