PSY 658 Midterm Exam |100% Correct|
Active Theory *Ans*Social barriers cause declining rates of interaction
Adolescents have difficulty controlling _________ *Ans*Emotions and impulses
Agonal phase *Ans*Gasps and muscle spasms during the first moments in which the regular
heartbeat disin...
PSY 658 Midterm Exam |100% Correct|
Active Theory *Ans*✨Social barriers cause declining rates of interaction
Adolescents have difficulty controlling _________ *Ans*✨Emotions and impulses
Agonal phase *Ans*✨Gasps and muscle spasms during the first moments in which the regular
heartbeat disintegrates
Anticipated grief is associated with ______ *Ans*✨Prolonged, expected death
Average life expectancy *Ans*✨The number of years the average newborn in a particular population
group is likely to live
Bereavement *Ans*✨State of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one
Body Transcendence *Ans*✨Surmounting physical limitations by emphasizing the compensating
rewards of cognitive, emotional, and social powers
Brain death *Ans*✨Brain no longer functioning even if heart beating
Chronological age does not *Ans*✨Always match functional age; people age at different rates
Clinical death *Ans*✨A short interval follows in which heartbeat, circulation, breathing, and brain
functioning stop, but resuscitation is still possible
Complicated grief *Ans*✨Severe, prolonged distress, depression, and lack of acceptance of the death
that persists for more than a year
, Continuity Theory *Ans*✨Strive to maintain consistency between past and future
Death anxiety is higher among men or women? *Ans*✨Women
Despair (Ego) *Ans*✨Sense there is not enough time to create a fulfilled life
Disengagement theory *Ans*✨Mutual withdrawal between older adults and society occurs in
anticipation of death1
Divorce rate is higher for ________________ *Ans*✨People in their 2nd marriage and for remarried
couples with stepchildren
Dual Process Model of Coping *Ans*✨Simultaneous dealing with emotional consequences &
attending to life changes.
Dualistic Thinking *Ans*✨Dividing information into right and wrong
During prolonged dying, the bereaved person's acknowledgement that the loss is inevitable, and
emotional preparation for it is __________ *Ans*✨Anticipatory Grief
Ego Differentiation *Ans*✨For those who invested heavily in their careers, finding other ways to
affirm self-worth—through family, friendship, and community life (Peck's ideas of attaining ego integrity
- one of 3 parts)
Ego Integrity vs. Despair *Ans*✨(Erikson) People in late adulthood either achieve a sense of integrity
of the self by accepting the lives they have lived or yield to despair that their lives cannot be relived
Ego Transcendence *Ans*✨As contemporaries die, facing the reality of death constructively through
efforts to make life more secure, meaningful, and gratifying for younger generations
Euthanasia *Ans*✨The practice of ending the life of a person suffering from an incurable condition
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