Question 1

Speece and Brent concluded that most studies of children's understandings of death have found that most children understand the key bioscientific sub-concepts of the concept of death by the age of:

Accepted Answer

A)  3 
B)  5 
C)  7 
D)  10 
E)  12

Question 2

A central guideline for adults seeking to communicate effectively with children about death is:

Accepted Answer

A)  Answer what they should want to know. 
B)  Tell them what they need to know. 
C)  Take your cues from the children. 
D)  Employ euphemisms so as not to frighten them. 
E)  Change the subject.

Question 3

Support groups for bereaved children are founded on the conviction that .

Accepted Answer

A)  such children are unlikely to be able to find a healthy way to go forward in their lives 
B)  stigmatizing bereaved children is unavoidable 
C)  complicated mourning processes have not been identified in such children 
D)  one must suspect the validity of a child's mourning processes 
E)  grief is a natural reaction to loss in children

Question 4

Children who have survived a life-threatening illness often have to deal with issues of .

Accepted Answer

A)  submitting to stigma in social contexts 
B)  learning to live with certainty 
C)  incorporating the disease experience into their life histories 
D)  learning to reject compromise in ongoing living 
E)  All of these

Question 5

Identify and comment on two specific issues associated with the question of whether children should be prohibited from attending funerals.

Accepted Answer

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Question 6

According to Speece and Brent, the sub-concept of death most closely related to the recognition that death involves the complete and final cessation of all life-defining capabilities typically attributed to a living physical body is _________.

Accepted Answer

A)  causality 
B)  universality 
C)  noncorporeal continuation 
D)  nonfunctionality 
E)  irreversibility

Question 7

A fundamental lesson from research on the development of children's concepts of death is that children .

Accepted Answer

A)  at a young age are able to grasp a mature concept of death 
B)  make an active effort to grasp or understand death 
C)  who think of death as sleep are without a concept of death 
D)  personify death in Hungary and in other countries 
E)  can grasp the finality of death before the age of 5

Question 8

The vignette near the outset of Chapter 12 in the eighth edition of Death & Dying, Life & Living describes an audiovisual, "And We Were Sad, Remember?", in which a father tells his child "you don't have to worry about that [death] for a hundred years." In so doing, the father is not:

Accepted Answer

A)  Supporting the child's interest in the death event 
B)  Determining what and how the child is able to understand 
C)  Seeing this death as an important life experience for the child 
D)  All of these 
E)  None of these

Question 9

According to Speece and Brent, the sub-concept of death most closely related to the recognition that "all living things must eventually die" is .

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