Question 1

List five effective strategies for communicating with a dying person.

Accepted Answer

1. Establish your presence.
2. Eliminate

Question 2

John is an older adult who is adjusting to the recent death of his wife. What is likely to help him through this difficult time?

Accepted Answer

A)  volunteering, religiosity, and psychological coping skills 
B)  remarriage 
C)  training in household management skills and routines 
D)  the Widow-to-Widow program 
A)  volunteering, religiosity, and psychological coping skills 
B)  remarriage 
C)  training in household management skills and routines 
D)  the Widow-to-Widow program

Question 3

The traditional Amish and Jewish cultures are similar in how they cope with death in that they both

Accepted Answer

A)  provide community support for the family over several months. 
B)  have elaborate funeral ceremonies to symbolize the passage from Earth. 
C)  believe that grief is stronger for the whole community than for the individual family. 
D)  expect families to cope with minimal support or interference from the community. 
A)  provide community support for the family over several months. 
B)  have elaborate funeral ceremonies to symbolize the passage from Earth. 
C)  believe that grief is stronger for the whole community than for the individual family. 
D)  expect families to cope with minimal support or interference from the community.

Question 4

Betty's doctor allows her to make important decisions regarding treatment of her terminal disease. Betty's perceived control will likely serve to

Accepted Answer

A)  make her depressed every time she has to confront another option. 
B)  keep her in maladaptive denial refusing many recommended medications. 
C)  improve her attitude about the situation. 
D)  ignite her immune system and help her conquer the disease. 
A)  make her depressed every time she has to confront another option. 
B)  keep her in maladaptive denial refusing many recommended medications. 
C)  improve her attitude about the situation. 
D)  ignite her immune system and help her conquer the disease.

Question 5

Which state allows active euthanasia?

Accepted Answer

A)  Oregon 
B)  Michigan 
C)  Alaska 
D)  Texas 
A)  Oregon 
B)  Michigan 
C)  Alaska 
D)  Texas

Question 6

List two advantages of communicating openly with a person who is dying.

Accepted Answer

1. They can close their lives in accorda

Question 7

Which of the following is an advantage of an individual knowing that he or she is dying?

Accepted Answer

A)  They can seek more aggressive medical interventions. 
B)  They are able to move through the stages of dying more quickly. 
C)  They can construct more effective means of denying their death. 
D)  They have time to reflect on their lives and make decisions about dying. 
A)  They can seek more aggressive medical interventions. 
B)  They are able to move through the stages of dying more quickly. 
C)  They can construct more effective means of denying their death. 
D)  They have time to reflect on their lives and make decisions about dying.

Question 8

If all electrical activity of the brain has ceased for a specified period of time, an individual is

Accepted Answer

A)  brain dead. 
B)  biologically dead. 
C)  psychologically dead. 
D)  dead. 
A)  brain dead. 
B)  biologically dead. 
C)  psychologically dead. 
D)  dead.

Question 9

During which life stage is the rate of suicide the highest in the United States?

Accepted Answer

A)  adolescence 
B)  25-44 years old 
C)  45-64 years old 
D)  75 years and older 
A)  adolescence 
B)  25-44 years old 
C)  45-64 years old 
D)  75 years and older

Question 10

Brenda is surprised that her chemotherapy has not been more effective. "I can't die-not me." Which of Kübler-Ross' stages of dying does this illustrate?

Accepted Answer

A)  anger 
B)  denial 
C)  bargaining 
D)  depression 
A)  anger 
B)  denial 
C)  bargaining 
D)  depression

Question 11

Euthanasia that occurs when death is deliberately induced is termed

Accepted Answer

A)  passive. 
B)  active. 
C)  overt. 
D)  covert. 
A)  passive. 
B)  active. 
C)  overt. 
D)  covert.

Question 12

Which of the following is an unintended consequence of the medical community's emphasis on prolonging life?

Accepted Answer

A)  Children learn to fear growing older and dying. 
B)  Older adults have unrealistic expectations about what the quality of their life will be. 
C)  Chronically ill patients have time to plan a funeral. 
D)  It allows people to deny or avoid the certainty of death. 
A)  Children learn to fear growing older and dying. 
B)  Older adults have unrealistic expectations about what the quality of their life will be. 
C)  Chronically ill patients have time to plan a funeral. 
D)  It allows people to deny or avoid the certainty of death.

Question 13

According to Cottrell & Duggleby, which factor may work as an adaptive strategy or a maladaptive strategy for dealing with impending death depending on how it is employed?

Accepted Answer

A)  perceived control 
B)  acceptance 
C)  autonomy 
D)  denial 
A)  perceived control 
B)  acceptance 
C)  autonomy 
D)  denial

Question 14

After the funeral, three children discuss their mother's death. They talk in detail about her illness and her day-to-day decline. Such conversation most likely indicates

Accepted Answer

A)  an effort to emotionally deny the death. 
B)  our society's morbid fascination with death. 
C)  an effort to use grief to better understand the death. 
D)  contemporary society's lack of respect for the deceased. 
A)  an effort to emotionally deny the death. 
B)  our society's morbid fascination with death. 
C)  an effort to use grief to better understand the death. 
D)  contemporary society's lack of respect for the deceased.

Question 15

What spurs an adult to become more conscious of death?

Accepted Answer

A)  first major illness 
B)  seeping awareness of vulnerability 
C)  recognition of aging 
D)  first major failure (school, job, relationship, etc.) 
A)  first major illness 
B)  seeping awareness of vulnerability 
C)  recognition of aging 
D)  first major failure (school, job, relationship, etc.)

Question 16

Marilyn suffers a severe stroke and irreversible brain damage. Her husband decides to remove all life support and, subsequently, Marilyn dies. This is an example of

Accepted Answer

A)  active euthanasia. 
B)  passive euthanasia. 
C)  apathetic euthanasia. 
D)  acceptable homicide. 
A)  active euthanasia. 
B)  passive euthanasia. 
C)  apathetic euthanasia. 
D)  acceptable homicide.

Question 17

When a person is dying of a terminal illness, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross believed that depression is

Accepted Answer

A)  a phase that friends and family can help the person through by encouraging cheerfulness. 
B)  the first phase a person goes through when he or she learns that death is imminent. 
C)  part of the normal process of detaching oneself from love objects. 
D)  an uncommon reaction signaling a need for counseling and possible antidepressant medication. 
A)  a phase that friends and family can help the person through by encouraging cheerfulness. 
B)  the first phase a person goes through when he or she learns that death is imminent. 
C)  part of the normal process of detaching oneself from love objects. 
D)  an uncommon reaction signaling a need for counseling and possible antidepressant medication.

Question 18

Beth has late-stage terminal cancer. She understands which procedures she is willing to endure and which ones she does not want to undergo. How can Beth best communicate her desires to her physician and family?

Accepted Answer

A)  Beth should wait until she is nearly incapacitated to make any treatment decisions. 
B)  Beth should tell her doctor on her next visit what she has decided. 
C)  Beth should prepare a living will or advanced directive and share it with her family and doctor. 
D)  Beth can assume that her husband's judgment will mirror hers and turn the decision making over to him. 
A)  Beth should wait until she is nearly incapacitated to make any treatment decisions. 
B)  Beth should tell her doctor on her next visit what she has decided. 
C)  Beth should prepare a living will or advanced directive and share it with her family and doctor. 
D)  Beth can assume that her husband's judgment will mirror hers and turn the decision making over to him.

Question 19

List four ways that Americans avoid and deny death.

Accepted Answer

1. glossing over death and fashioning li

Question 20

Which of the following refers to individuals' rights to determine whether extraordinary means should be used to keep them alive?

Accepted Answer

A)  euthanasia 
B)  durable power of attorney 
C)  allowing termination of life support in the event of brain death 
D)  living will 
A)  euthanasia 
B)  durable power of attorney 
C)  allowing termination of life support in the event of brain death 
D)  living will

List five effective strategies for communicating with a dying person.

John is an older adult who is adjusting to the recent death of his wife. What is likely to help him through this difficult time?

The traditional Amish and Jewish cultures are similar in how they cope with death in that they both

Betty's doctor allows her to make important decisions regarding treatment of her terminal disease. Betty's perceived control will likely serve to

Which state allows active euthanasia?

List two advantages of communicating openly with a person who is dying.

Which of the following is an advantage of an individual knowing that he or she is dying?

If all electrical activity of the brain has ceased for a specified period of time, an individual is

During which life stage is the rate of suicide the highest in the United States?

Brenda is surprised that her chemotherapy has not been more effective. "I can't die-not me." Which of Kübler-Ross' stages of dying does this illustrate?

Euthanasia that occurs when death is deliberately induced is termed

Which of the following is an unintended consequence of the medical community's emphasis on prolonging life?

According to Cottrell & Duggleby, which factor may work as an adaptive strategy or a maladaptive strategy for dealing with impending death depending on how it is employed?

After the funeral, three children discuss their mother's death. They talk in detail about her illness and her day-to-day decline. Such conversation most likely indicates

What spurs an adult to become more conscious of death?

Marilyn suffers a severe stroke and irreversible brain damage. Her husband decides to remove all life support and, subsequently, Marilyn dies. This is an example of

When a person is dying of a terminal illness, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross believed that depression is

Beth has late-stage terminal cancer. She understands which procedures she is willing to endure and which ones she does not want to undergo. How can Beth best communicate her desires to her physician and family?

List four ways that Americans avoid and deny death.

Which of the following refers to individuals' rights to determine whether extraordinary means should be used to keep them alive?

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Exam 17: Death, Dying, and Grieving

List five effective strategies for communicating with a dying person.

John is an older adult who is adjusting to the recent death of his wife. What is likely to help him through this difficult time?

The traditional Amish and Jewish cultures are similar in how they cope with death in that they both

Betty's doctor allows her to make important decisions regarding treatment of her terminal disease. Betty's perceived control will likely serve to

Which state allows active euthanasia?

List two advantages of communicating openly with a person who is dying.

Which of the following is an advantage of an individual knowing that he or she is dying?

If all electrical activity of the brain has ceased for a specified period of time, an individual is

During which life stage is the rate of suicide the highest in the United States?

Brenda is surprised that her chemotherapy has not been more effective. "I can't die-not me." Which of Kübler-Ross' stages of dying does this illustrate?

Euthanasia that occurs when death is deliberately induced is termed

Which of the following is an unintended consequence of the medical community's emphasis on prolonging life?

According to Cottrell & Duggleby, which factor may work as an adaptive strategy or a maladaptive strategy for dealing with impending death depending on how it is employed?

After the funeral, three children discuss their mother's death. They talk in detail about her illness and her day-to-day decline. Such conversation most likely indicates

What spurs an adult to become more conscious of death?

Marilyn suffers a severe stroke and irreversible brain damage. Her husband decides to remove all life support and, subsequently, Marilyn dies. This is an example of

When a person is dying of a terminal illness, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross believed that depression is

Beth has late-stage terminal cancer. She understands which procedures she is willing to endure and which ones she does not want to undergo. How can Beth best communicate her desires to her physician and family?

List four ways that Americans avoid and deny death.

Which of the following refers to individuals' rights to determine whether extraordinary means should be used to keep them alive?

Introduction

Biological Beginnings

Physical Development and Biological Aging

Health

Motor, Sensory, and Perceptual Development

Cognitive Developmental Approaches

Information Processing

Intelligence

Language Development

Emotional Development and Attachment

The Self, Identity, and Personality

Gender and Sexuality

Moral Development, Values, and Religion

Families, Lifestyles, and Parenting

Peers and the Sociocultural World

Schools, Achievement, and Work

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