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1.0. Kastenbaum observed that Hollywood portrayals of death emphasize all the following EXCEPT
the notion:
Answer: b. of open communication, as in interpersonal connecting with significant words of parting.
2.0. A new question has arisen about gory details on television programs such as CSI and whether
their portrayal of death serves to
______ death.
Answer: c. depersonalize
3.0. The ______ is a person who is quick to introduce a fatalistic statement often as an attempt to end
a discussion about death before
it begins.
Answer: c. silencer
4.0. The leading cause of death for the population in general is:
Answer: c. heart disease.
5.0. The earliest childhood memory reported by most adults is an experience of:
Answer: b. death.
6.0. Of the 100 individuals Jack Kevorkian "assisted" in death, how many were terminally ill?
Answer: d. less than one third
7.0. One study that followed patients through their postoperative period found that:
Answer: c. those with positive religious coping styles experienced less pain and distress.
8.0. Personal experience with dying and death influences our:
Answer: d. attitudes, beliefs, and feelings.
9.0. Which of the following is NOT true of living wills?
Answer: b. Most people in the United States have initiated a living will.
10.0. Studies have found that the people who sign organ donor cards are:
Answer: d. all of the above
11.0. A study found that those who crossed the street in a high risk-taking manner were:
Answer: a. more likely to have contemplated or attempted suicide in the past.
12.0. Upon viewing his friend Ivan Ilych's corpse, Peter Ivanovich:
Answer: c. tried to differentiate and distance himself from Ilych.
13.0. Which of the following is NOT one of the criticisms Kastenbaum highlighted regarding research
using death anxiety scales?
Answer: a. Studies often involve resurveying participants many times.
14.0. Most self-report studies find that the general population has a ______ level of death anxiety.
Answer: b. low to moderate
15.0. Most self-report studies find that:
Answer: a. women have higher death anxiety scores than men.
16.0. Studies regarding age and death anxiety show that death anxiety:
Answer: b. shows either no age differences or decreases somewhat in the later adult years.
17.0. In a longitudinal study conducted in the United States that examined the relationship between
religiousness and fear of death and
dying, researchers found:
Answer: a. strong religious beliefs did not provide an effective buffer against fear of death
18.0. The apprehensiveness and restlessness we carry around with us in everyday life is sometimes
called:
Answer: b. trait anxiety
6.0. Cryonic suspension is another word used for cremation.
Answer: b. false
7.0. Homicide rates have been consistently the highest in Southern states.
Answer: a. true
8.0. Researchers have found that individuals who choose NOT to be organ donors often have a fear
of being declared dead
prematurely.
Answer: a. true
9.0. Mortality salience can only be a factor in a research study for participants who have been
exposed directly to death, such as
soldiers and paramedics.
Answer: a. false
10.0. Nearly 200 human bodies have been placed in cryonic suspension worldwide.
Answer: b. false
11.0. A survey of studies conducted in 15 nations showed that women tend to have higher death
anxiety scores on self-report scales.
Answer: a. true
12.0. Death anxiety tends to be relatively high in adolescence and early adulthood.
Answer: a. true
13.0. A study by Russac et al. (2007) found that women experienced a secondary peak in death
anxiety as they entered their fifties.
Answer: a. true
14.0. It is unusual for people to experience an upsurge of death anxiety when they realize how close
they have come to being killed in
a motor vehicle accident.
Answer: b. false
15.0. In Freud's view, thanatophobia is the result of castration anxiety.
Answer: a. true
16.0. Becker, an advocate of the existential position, argues that death anxiety is the root of
schizophrenia.
Answer: a. true
17.0. A criticism of Freud’s and Becker’s positions about death anxiety is that basic assumptions of
both of these perspectives appear
to be beyond empirical investigation.
Answer: a. true
18.0. Denial, in the psychiatric sense, is a primitive defense mechanism that is ineffective in the long
term.
Answer: a. true
19.0. Both compartmentalizing and denial involve a disconnection of one aspect of a death-related
situation from another.
Answer: a. true
20.0. Acceptance and denial can be evaluated only when we are in a position to understand the
context a given person is in, what is
trying to be accomplished, and what is being faced.
Answer: a. true
Chapter Two: What Is Death?
Multiple Choice
1.0. The novel Frankenstein was strongly influenced by all the following EXCEPT the:
Answer: d. aged author's own preparation for death.
2.0. Darwin's shipboard experiments demonstrated thanatomimesis, which occurs when a:
Answer: b. live animal deliberately appears to be dead in order to avoid being killed.
3.0. The position that death is not a sudden, massive event, but rather a complex process that takes
place over time is promoted by:
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