ch 19 - lifespan

Ch 19 1. What form of death has an individual experienced if she has died and been resuscitated? - Clinical death 2. Which form of death occurs at the point at which family members and medical personnel treat the deceased person as a corpse? - Social death 3. The vast majority of people in Canada die - Hospitals 4. Which type of care focuses on relieving a terminally ill patient’s pain, rather than curing the illness? - Palliative 5. When they start school, most children seem - To understand the permanence of death 6. Which term explains a young adult’s belief that she is too lucky to die, even though she knows that death can happen to other people? - Unique invulnerability 7. Which group of people is most afraid of death? - Middle aged adults 8. Older adults who are experiencing the terminal decline experience all the following except a - sudden significant drop in all physical and mental functioning a few months before death 9. A dying person who says “Why me? This isn’t fair!” is in which stage of psychological preparation for death, according to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross? - Anger 10. Which of the following is not an accurate statement about criticisms of Kübler-Ross’s model of the psychological stages of dying? - The model has been criticized for failing to convey clear ideas or meaningful concepts about the process of dying. 11. Research into the relationship between an individual’s emotional response to impending or probable death and the actual outcome suggests, in general, that - emotional responses contribute to disease progress. 12. How does involvement in self-help exercises affect cancer survival? - Those who are most engaged in self-help live longer. 13. Which of the following is not a typical psychological function of death rituals? - showing others how much the survivors loved the person who died 14. Which of the following is not an accurate statement about the way widowhood affects physical and mental health? - Depression is a universal symptom of grief that is unaffected by cultural factors.