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TEST BANK Death, Society and Human Experience 12th Edition
Chapter 1: As We Think About Death
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
1.0. Kastenbaum observed that Hollywood portrayals of death
emphasize all the following EXCEPT the notion:
a) that the doctor is the most important person to pay attention to when
someone is dying
b) of open communication, as in interpersonal connecting with significant
words of parting
c) that deception and sentimentalism are the best approaches
d) that a sanitized version of dying is the best approach.
Difficulty: 1
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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.
a) coldly analyze
b) expose the emotions surrounding
c) depersonalize
d) mystify.
Difficulty: 3
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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.
a) listener
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b) fatalist
c) silencer
d) instigator.
Difficulty: 3
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Answer: c) silencer
4.0. The leading cause of death for the population in general is:
a) suicide
b) motor vehicle accident
c) heart disease
d) cancer.
Difficulty: 1
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Answer: c) heart disease
5.0. The earliest childhood memory reported by most adults is an
experience of:
a) joy
b) death
c) anger
d) sadness.
Difficulty: 1
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Answer: b) death
6.0. Of the 100 individuals Jack Kevorkian “assisted” in death, how
many were terminally ill?
a) one half
b) more than one-half
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c) one third
d) less than one-third.
Difficulty: 1
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Answer: d) less than one-third
7.0. One study that followed patients through their postoperative
period found that:
a) those with positive religious coping styles experienced more pain and
distress
b) those with positive religious coping styles experienced no pain or distress
c) those with positive religious coping styles experienced less pain and
distress
d) doubt and conflict in religious beliefs had no effect on health outcomes.
Difficulty: 1
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Answer: c) those with positive religious coping styles experienced less pain
and distress
8.0. Personal experience with dying and death influences our:
a) attitudes and beliefs
b) beliefs
c) feelings and attitudes
d) attitudes, beliefs, and feelings.
Difficulty: 1
Page reference: 13
Answer: d) attitudes, beliefs, and feelings
9.0. Which of the following is NOT true of living wills?
a) The option of having a living will has been available since 1968.
b) Most people in the United States have initiated a living will.
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c) These documents were designed to give individuals influence over the last
few days of life.
d) These documents define the type of medical interventions to be carried
out if death is close and the individual is unable to express his or her
wishes.
Difficulty: 2
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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:
a) less anxious about death
b) more self-reliant
c) feel more effective
d) all of the above.
Difficulty: 2
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Answer: d) all of the above
11.0. A study found that those who crossed the street in a high risk-
taking manner were:
a) more likely to have attempted suicide in the past
b) more likely to be women
c) less likely to take high risks when they drive
d) less frustrated with their lives.
Difficulty: 3
Page reference: 15
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:
a) prayed for both Ilych’s soul and his own
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b) sorrowed for Ilych’s widow and children
c) tried to differentiate and distance himself from Ilych
d) tried to persuade himself that the man in the coffin was not really Ilych.
Difficulty: 2
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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?
a) Studies often involve resurveying participants many times.
b) Low scores are difficult to interpret.
c) It is not known what a healthy or normal score would be.
d) Little is learned about participants’ beliefs or attitudes.
Difficulty: 3
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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.
a) very low
b) low to moderate
c) moderate to high
d) very high
Difficulty: 2
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Answer: b) low to moderate
15.0. Most self-report studies find that:
a) women have higher death anxiety scores than men
b) elderly adults have higher death anxiety scores than younger adults
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c) people with psychiatric conditions do not differ in death anxiety scores
from the general population
d) death anxiety scores tend to decrease in later middle age.
Difficulty: 2
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Answer: a) women have higher death anxiety scores than men
16.0. Studies regarding age and death anxiety show that death
anxiety:
a) dramatically increases as people reach their 70s
b) shows either no age differences or decreases somewhat in the later adult
years
c) decrease as one enters adolescence
d) revolve around fears of violent death for elderly adults.
Difficulty: 2
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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:
a) strong religious beliefs did not provide an effective buffer against fear of
death
b) strong religious beliefs led to decreased death anxiety in later adult years
c) highly religious people reported the least amount of death anxiety
d) non-religious people reported higher degrees of death anxiety.
Difficulty: 2
Page reference: 20–21
Answer: a) strong religious beliefs did not provide an effective buffer
against fear of death
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18.0. The apprehensiveness and restlessness we carry around with
us in everyday life is sometimes called:
a) death anxiety
b) trait anxiety
c) death denial
d) self-denial.
Difficulty: 2
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Answer: b) trait anxiety
19.0. “We cannot really fear death, because we cannot really
imagine our own death.” This statement is at the core of the ______
death anxiety theory.
a) existential
b) terror management
c) early Freudian psychoanalytic
d) edge.
Difficulty: 2
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Answer: c) early Freudian psychoanalytic
20.0. Which of the following is NOT true of the early psychoanalytic
perspective on death anxiety?
a) Death anxiety comes into consciousness as we learn to comprehend our
own annihilation.
b) The unconscious does not understand the concept of negation, so it can’t
erase itself.
c) The unconscious does not respond to time and so doesn't understand an
end of time.
d) Castration anxiety is the source of death anxiety.
Difficulty: 3
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TEST BANK Death, Society and Human Experience 12th Edition
Chapter 1: As We Think About Death
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
1.0. Kastenbaum observed that Hollywood portrayals of death
emphasize all the following EXCEPT the notion:
a) that the doctor is the most important person to pay attention to when
someone is dying
b) of open communication, as in interpersonal connecting with significant
words of parting
c) that deception and sentimentalism are the best approaches
d) that a sanitized version of dying is the best approach.
Difficulty: 1
Page reference: 6
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.
a) coldly analyze
b) expose the emotions surrounding
c) depersonalize
d) mystify.
Difficulty: 3
Page reference: 6
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.
a) listener
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b) fatalist
c) silencer
d) instigator.
Difficulty: 3
Page reference: 6
Answer: c) silencer
4.0. The leading cause of death for the population in general is:
a) suicide
b) motor vehicle accident
c) heart disease
d) cancer.
Difficulty: 1
Page reference: 12
Answer: c) heart disease
5.0. The earliest childhood memory reported by most adults is an
experience of:
a) joy
b) death
c) anger
d) sadness.
Difficulty: 1
Page reference: 12
Answer: b) death
6.0. Of the 100 individuals Jack Kevorkian “assisted” in death, how
many were terminally ill?
a) one half
b) more than one-half
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c) one third
d) less than one-third.
Difficulty: 1
Page reference: 12
Answer: d) less than one-third
7.0. One study that followed patients through their postoperative
period found that:
a) those with positive religious coping styles experienced more pain and
distress
b) those with positive religious coping styles experienced no pain or distress
c) those with positive religious coping styles experienced less pain and
distress
d) doubt and conflict in religious beliefs had no effect on health outcomes.
Difficulty: 1
Page reference: 15
Answer: c) those with positive religious coping styles experienced less pain
and distress
8.0. Personal experience with dying and death influences our:
a) attitudes and beliefs
b) beliefs
c) feelings and attitudes
d) attitudes, beliefs, and feelings.
Difficulty: 1
Page reference: 13
Answer: d) attitudes, beliefs, and feelings
9.0. Which of the following is NOT true of living wills?
a) The option of having a living will has been available since 1968.
b) Most people in the United States have initiated a living will.
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c) These documents were designed to give individuals influence over the last
few days of life.
d) These documents define the type of medical interventions to be carried
out if death is close and the individual is unable to express his or her
wishes.
Difficulty: 2
Page reference: 14
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:
a) less anxious about death
b) more self-reliant
c) feel more effective
d) all of the above.
Difficulty: 2
Page reference: 14
Answer: d) all of the above
11.0. A study found that those who crossed the street in a high risk-
taking manner were:
a) more likely to have attempted suicide in the past
b) more likely to be women
c) less likely to take high risks when they drive
d) less frustrated with their lives.
Difficulty: 3
Page reference: 15
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:
a) prayed for both Ilych’s soul and his own
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b) sorrowed for Ilych’s widow and children
c) tried to differentiate and distance himself from Ilych
d) tried to persuade himself that the man in the coffin was not really Ilych.
Difficulty: 2
Page reference: 16
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?
a) Studies often involve resurveying participants many times.
b) Low scores are difficult to interpret.
c) It is not known what a healthy or normal score would be.
d) Little is learned about participants’ beliefs or attitudes.
Difficulty: 3
Page reference: 17
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.
a) very low
b) low to moderate
c) moderate to high
d) very high
Difficulty: 2
Page reference: 17
Answer: b) low to moderate
15.0. Most self-report studies find that:
a) women have higher death anxiety scores than men
b) elderly adults have higher death anxiety scores than younger adults
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c) people with psychiatric conditions do not differ in death anxiety scores
from the general population
d) death anxiety scores tend to decrease in later middle age.
Difficulty: 2
Page reference: 18
Answer: a) women have higher death anxiety scores than men
16.0. Studies regarding age and death anxiety show that death
anxiety:
a) dramatically increases as people reach their 70s
b) shows either no age differences or decreases somewhat in the later adult
years
c) decrease as one enters adolescence
d) revolve around fears of violent death for elderly adults.
Difficulty: 2
Page reference: 18
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:
a) strong religious beliefs did not provide an effective buffer against fear of
death
b) strong religious beliefs led to decreased death anxiety in later adult years
c) highly religious people reported the least amount of death anxiety
d) non-religious people reported higher degrees of death anxiety.
Difficulty: 2
Page reference: 20–21
Answer: a) strong religious beliefs did not provide an effective buffer
against fear of death
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18.0. The apprehensiveness and restlessness we carry around with
us in everyday life is sometimes called:
a) death anxiety
b) trait anxiety
c) death denial
d) self-denial.
Difficulty: 2
Page reference: 21
Answer: b) trait anxiety
19.0. “We cannot really fear death, because we cannot really
imagine our own death.” This statement is at the core of the ______
death anxiety theory.
a) existential
b) terror management
c) early Freudian psychoanalytic
d) edge.
Difficulty: 2
Page reference: 22
Answer: c) early Freudian psychoanalytic
20.0. Which of the following is NOT true of the early psychoanalytic
perspective on death anxiety?
a) Death anxiety comes into consciousness as we learn to comprehend our
own annihilation.
b) The unconscious does not understand the concept of negation, so it can’t
erase itself.
c) The unconscious does not respond to time and so doesn't understand an
end of time.
d) Castration anxiety is the source of death anxiety.
Difficulty: 3
Page reference: 22
