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Thanatology Midterm Review Exam
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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes - ✔✔Psychology
The study of human behavior as related to funeral service - ✔✔Funeral Service Psychology
An adjustment process which involves grief or sorrow over a period of time and helps in the
reorganization of the life of an individual following a loss or death of someone loved - ✔✔Mourning
An emotion or set of emotions due to a loss that is involved in the work of mourning - ✔✔Grief
"The study of death, especially the medical, emotional, and final problems associated with dying" -
✔✔Thanatology
"An irrational, exagerated fear of death" - ✔✔Thanatophobia
author of Attachment Theory - ✔✔John Bowlby
"was a psychoanalist that subscribed to Freud's theory of Personality involving the Ego, SuperEgo and Id.
He tried to intertwine these concepts with the concept of grief and he ended up disagreeing with some of
the Freudian suppositions, including the Oedipus complex - that the love for mother derives from
sensuous oral gratification. Bowlby wrote a trilogy of books entitled ""Attachment"", ""Separation"" and
""Loss"". In these books, he outlined the Attachment Theory." - ✔✔John Bowlby (2)
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"The infant and young child should experience a warm, intimate, and continuous relationship with his
mother (or permanent mother substitute) in which both find satisfaction and enjoyment" - ✔✔Bowlby
stated in a 1951 paper the basic premise of the Attachment Theory
believe that the way a child learns to explore the world is by knowing where the Secure Base of a mother
was and they would continually return to that secure base as they explore the world and Attachments
come from a need for security and safety - ✔✔John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth
infants are actually raised in one of three environments - ✔✔"Secure, Avoidant or Anxious/Ambivalent"
Bowlby also identified three phases of separation response - ✔✔" protest (related to separation anxiety);
despair (related to grief and mourning); and denial or detachment (related to defense mechanisms,
especially repression)"
Author of Psychomatic Medicine - ✔✔Dr. Engel
Dr. Engel believes - ✔✔loss of loved one is psychologically and is traumatic as being severely injured. A
person must to thru healing after a death
"Manifestations of Normal Grief - ✔✔Feelings | Physical sensations | Cognitions| Behaviors
Which of the following are the three types of attachment discussed in lesson 2.1 - ✔✔avoidant | secure |
anxious/ambivalent
Designed to understand, diagnose and treat abnormal or deviant behavior - ✔✔Clinical Psychology
Internal mental process which include thinking, memory, concept formation, perception and processing
info - ✔✔Cognitive Psychology
Latin "to know" origins and consequences of thoughts, memories, beliefs, perceptions, explanations and
other mental processes - ✔✔Counseling Psychology
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Way in which behaviors develop and change during a life span (primarily focuses on children) -
✔✔Developmental Psychology
Educations systems, method of teaching and learning, curricula and other factors that influence the
learning process - ✔✔Educational Psychology
Persons personality is tied to the mental processes of the individual - ✔✔Personality Psychology
How behavior effects others - ✔✔Social Psychology
Believes employees are lazy and only concerned for money - ✔✔McGregor's Theory X
Believes that employees will excel if given the right environment and opportunities
*extension of theory in Japan - ✔✔McGregor's Theory Y
The motivational theory in which employees are involved in all levels of the organization -
✔✔McGregor's Theory Z
Types of social behaviors - ✔✔Social Comparison
Conformity
Obedience
Agression
Prejudice
Leadership
Redirection of emotion to culturally or socially useful purposes - ✔✔Sublimation
Stages of Memory - ✔✔Encoding
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Thanatology Midterm Review Exam
Questions Correct Verified Answers
New Update (A+ Pass)
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes - ✔✔Psychology
The study of human behavior as related to funeral service - ✔✔Funeral Service Psychology
An adjustment process which involves grief or sorrow over a period of time and helps in the
reorganization of the life of an individual following a loss or death of someone loved - ✔✔Mourning
An emotion or set of emotions due to a loss that is involved in the work of mourning - ✔✔Grief
"The study of death, especially the medical, emotional, and final problems associated with dying" -
✔✔Thanatology
"An irrational, exagerated fear of death" - ✔✔Thanatophobia
author of Attachment Theory - ✔✔John Bowlby
"was a psychoanalist that subscribed to Freud's theory of Personality involving the Ego, SuperEgo and Id.
He tried to intertwine these concepts with the concept of grief and he ended up disagreeing with some of
the Freudian suppositions, including the Oedipus complex - that the love for mother derives from
sensuous oral gratification. Bowlby wrote a trilogy of books entitled ""Attachment"", ""Separation"" and
""Loss"". In these books, he outlined the Attachment Theory." - ✔✔John Bowlby (2)
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"The infant and young child should experience a warm, intimate, and continuous relationship with his
mother (or permanent mother substitute) in which both find satisfaction and enjoyment" - ✔✔Bowlby
stated in a 1951 paper the basic premise of the Attachment Theory
believe that the way a child learns to explore the world is by knowing where the Secure Base of a mother
was and they would continually return to that secure base as they explore the world and Attachments
come from a need for security and safety - ✔✔John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth
infants are actually raised in one of three environments - ✔✔"Secure, Avoidant or Anxious/Ambivalent"
Bowlby also identified three phases of separation response - ✔✔" protest (related to separation anxiety);
despair (related to grief and mourning); and denial or detachment (related to defense mechanisms,
especially repression)"
Author of Psychomatic Medicine - ✔✔Dr. Engel
Dr. Engel believes - ✔✔loss of loved one is psychologically and is traumatic as being severely injured. A
person must to thru healing after a death
"Manifestations of Normal Grief - ✔✔Feelings | Physical sensations | Cognitions| Behaviors
Which of the following are the three types of attachment discussed in lesson 2.1 - ✔✔avoidant | secure |
anxious/ambivalent
Designed to understand, diagnose and treat abnormal or deviant behavior - ✔✔Clinical Psychology
Internal mental process which include thinking, memory, concept formation, perception and processing
info - ✔✔Cognitive Psychology
Latin "to know" origins and consequences of thoughts, memories, beliefs, perceptions, explanations and
other mental processes - ✔✔Counseling Psychology
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Way in which behaviors develop and change during a life span (primarily focuses on children) -
✔✔Developmental Psychology
Educations systems, method of teaching and learning, curricula and other factors that influence the
learning process - ✔✔Educational Psychology
Persons personality is tied to the mental processes of the individual - ✔✔Personality Psychology
How behavior effects others - ✔✔Social Psychology
Believes employees are lazy and only concerned for money - ✔✔McGregor's Theory X
Believes that employees will excel if given the right environment and opportunities
*extension of theory in Japan - ✔✔McGregor's Theory Y
The motivational theory in which employees are involved in all levels of the organization -
✔✔McGregor's Theory Z
Types of social behaviors - ✔✔Social Comparison
Conformity
Obedience
Agression
Prejudice
Leadership
Redirection of emotion to culturally or socially useful purposes - ✔✔Sublimation
Stages of Memory - ✔✔Encoding
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