Thanatology Final Exam Review Questions
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Behaviorism - correct answer. The school of psychological thought that views
learning as the most important aspect of an organism's development. Behaviorism
seeks to objectively measure behavior and the way in which stimulus-response
relationships are formed.
1. Another name for Enculturation - correct answer. Socialization
1. List categories of complicated grief. - correct answer. Chronic, Delayed/Inhibited,
Exaggerated, Masked, Disenfranchised, Absent, Unbalanced
1. If parents of a child who died, keep the room of the child exactly like it was prior to
death for 4 or 5 years, what type of denial are they experiencing according to Worden? -
correct answer. denial of facts / mummification
1. List some characteristics of an Extended family. - correct answer. Found in rural
regions and inner cities, self suffiecient, patriarchal, politically conservative
2. According to Worden, the task of accepting the reality of loss takes time, but is aided
by what? - correct answer. viewing the body
2. Grief whereby the mourner does not experience the emotional reaction in proportion
to the loss, and at a later time experiences a degree of emotional reaction in excess of
that expected to some other incident/loss. - correct answer. Delayed Grief
2. List the 5 aspects of Funeralization. - correct answer. announcement of death;
care of the deceased; method of disposition; ceremony or ritual; memorialization
2. A basic family group consisting of married female and male parents and dependent
children, living away from other relatives - correct answer. nuclear
biological psychology - correct answer. The school of psychological thought in which
all our behaviors can be traced to the biological functions of the brain. Therefore most of
our behaviors are caused by the chemicals of our physical body.
clinical psychology - correct answer. The field of psychology which is designed to
understand, diagnose and treat abnormal or deviant behavior.
,3. A family that consists of a father and mother and their unmarried children from
previous marriages - correct answer. Blended family
3. List 2 descriptions of the typical American Adult. Tell whether or not you agree with
the statement that this describes the typical American Adult. - correct answer. lives
in a youth oriented society (true); Is highly mobile (technologically speaking, not
normally geographically)
3. Define linking objects - correct answer. Symbolic objects that the survivor keeps
and which provides a means through which the relationship with the deceased can be
maintained & continued external of memory
3. After the death of their father, two sons allowed their mother to go to the funeral, but
then they went to great lengths to keep her busy so she would not cry. They did this by
taking her out to various things, having someone stay with her every day and night, and
not allowing her to be alone for any length of time. According to Worden, which task of
mourning are they negating by their actions? - correct answer. to work through the
pain of grief
4. List the 5 factors that may influence a person's failure to grieve. - correct answer.
Relationship; Circumstantial; Personality; Social; Historical
4. According to Worden, what are the three types of adjustment a person goes through
following the loss of a loved one? - correct answer. internal, external, and spiritual
adjustments
4. What is the primary responsibility of a family? - correct answer. Teach, take care
of each other, discipline, give direction, motivate
4. Give an example (other than the example in the notes) of direct learning relating to
culture. - correct answer. How to read
cognition - correct answer. The study of the origins and consequences of thoughts,
memories, beliefs, perceptions, explanations and other mental processes.
Cognitive Psychology - correct answer. The field of psychology which studies
internal mental processes, which include thinking, memory, concept formation,
perception, and the processing of information.
5. What effect has the decline of the traditional extended family had on funeralization? -
correct answer. shortened the time spent, more humanistic, harder time seing the
value of funeral
5. Give an example (other than the example in the notes) of Indirect learning relating to
culture. - correct answer. how to read people's expressions
,5. Define Exaggerated Grief - correct answer. Grief responses whereby the loss is
so overwhelming that some psychiatric disorder develops, such as clinical depression
5. Which of Worden's tasks of mourning involves the bereaved evolving some ongoing
relationship with the thoughts and memories of the deceased and do this in a way that
would allow them to continue on? - correct answer. to emotionally relocate the
deceased and move on with life
counseling psychology - correct answer. The field of psychology which is designed
to held solve personal, academic, or vocational problems that do not stem from mental
disorders.
6. What impact does a death have on an extended family? - correct answer.
financial, emotional, stability
6. Describe the four justifications for a funeral. - correct answer. Biological;
Economical; Religious; Humanitarian; Psychological
6. Grief responses where the individual experiences a symptom/behavior but doesn't
see them being related to the loss. - correct answer. masked grief
6. Who developed the 4 tasks of mourning? - correct answer. William J. Worden
7. What is the most frequent type of relationship that results in unresolved grief? -
correct answer. highly ambivalent with unexpressed hostilities
7. List the four tasks of mourning? - correct answer. to accept the reality of the loss;
to work through the pain of grief; to adjust to an environment in which the deceased is
missing; to emotionally relocate the deceased and move on with life
7. A family in which the decisions are made primarily by the males rather than by the
females - correct answer. Patriarchal
7. The term defined by - A funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those
directly involved; one which has been altered to suit the trends of the times. - correct
answer. Adaptive Funeral Rite
developmental psychology - correct answer. The field of psychology which study the
way in which behaviors develop and change during a lifespan.
educational psychology - correct answer. The field of psychology which studies
education systems, methods of teaching, methods of learning, curricula and other
factors that influence the learning process.
8. List the effects of Industrialization. - correct answer. increase production, elevated
income, loss of craftmenship, break up of extended family
, 8. The term defined by - The intentional infliction of physical or psychological harm on
another. - correct answer. Aggression
8. Other than the example listed in the notes, give an example of how circumstances
can lead to unresolved grief. - correct answer. missing/kidnapped person/child
8. According to Worden, a person who does not accept the reality of death is in a form
of denial. What three forms of denial does he believe a person may experience? -
correct answer. denial of facts; denial of the meaning of loss; denial of the
irreversibility of loss
functionalism - correct answer. The school of psychological thought which proposed
that the function, not the structure, of conscious experience should be studied.
9. The creation of a system which govern through departments and subdivisions
managed by sets of officials following an inflexible routine, which then has the tendency
to refine their procedures to ever more efficiently attain their goals. - correct answer.
Bureaucratization
9. The term defined by - A formal or symbolic act or observance. - correct answer.
Ceremony; Similar to ritual but it may/may not have symbolic content
9. List the five psychiatric disorders that may accompany exaggerated Grief. - correct
answer. clinical depression, anxiety, phobias, alcoholism, substance abuse
9. Describe Bargaining as a stage of grief according to Kubler-Ross. - correct answer.
attempting to make deals with God to stop or change the diagnosis by begging, wishing,
praying not to die, or at least delay death
10. In what two ways may masked grief manifest itself? - correct answer. physical
symptom or maladaptive behavior
10. Who developed the theory known as the "Grief Syndrome" which included some
type of bodily distress during grief? - correct answer. Eric Lindemann
10. The term defined by - A social grouping in which members possess roughly
equivalent culturally valued attributes. - correct answer. Class
10. List the effects of Bureaucratization. - correct answer. availability of modern
conveniences, cannot persue individual activity without permission
humanistic - correct answer. A school of psychological thought that emphasizes the
uniqueness of the individual and the search for self-actualization.
