1 | Page
Death and Dying (Thanatology) Questions
and Correct Answers
Chronic Disease Ans: — a noncommunicable, self-limiting disease
from which the individual rarely recovers. Ex. heart disease,
cancer, asthma
Dysfunction Ans: — an event that lessens the adjustment of a
social system; medicine prolongs life, contributing to
overpopulation
Etiology Ans: — the assignment of a cause, such as the major
causes of death in a country
Existentialist Philosophy Ans: — based on the doctrine that
existence takes presence over essence and holds that humans are
totally free and responsible for their acts, and that this
responsibility is the source of the dread and anguish that
encompass them
Eufunction Ans: — consequences of behaviour that are positive;
attending a funeral shows concern and care for others
Fictive Kin Ans: — Individuals referred to using kinship but who
are not related via kinship. Ex a godparent
Gerontophobia Ans: — the fear of growing old
Infant Mortality Rate Ans: — the number of deaths of children
under one year of age per 1000 live births
ISAS Ans: — symbolic interactionist's statement: behaviour of the
individual is in response to symbols, relative to the audience, and
relative to the situation
Latent Function Ans: — consequences that contribute to
adjustment but were not intended; attending a family funeral
becomes a family reunion
Manifest Function Ans: — objective consequences that contribute
to adjustment and were intended
© 2025 All rights reserved
, 2 | Page
Morbidity Ans: — the rare occurrence of a disease
Phenomenology Ans: — the philosophical study of phenomena
without any attempt at the nature of being studying; "the thing
itself"
Road Scholar Ans: — an informal educational program for
individuals 60 years or older.
Self-fulfilling Prophecy Ans: — a situation defined as real that
becomes real in its consequences when individuals are able to
make it so
sex ratio Ans: — the number of males per 100 females
socialization Ans: — the process by which individuals are
integrated into a social group by learning its values, goals, norms,
roles. Is a lifelong process that is never completed
Symbol Ans: — anything to which socially created meaning is
given
thanatology Ans: — the study of death-related behaviour including
actions and emotions concerned with dying, death, and
bereavement
brain death Ans: — the brain is totally and irreversibly dead.
cryonics Ans: — method of subjecting a corpse to extremely low
temperatures through the use of dry ice and nitrogen
curvilinear Ans: — referring to a type of nonlinear relationship
between two variables where at a certain point, associated with
increasing values in the independent variable, the relationship with
the dependent variable changes. A scattergram of this relationship
will look like a U
Death anxiety Ans: — a learned emotional response to death-
related phenomina characterized by extreme apprehension (death
fear)
dyad Ans: — two units regarded as a pair (husband and a wife)
© 2025 All rights reserved
Death and Dying (Thanatology) Questions
and Correct Answers
Chronic Disease Ans: — a noncommunicable, self-limiting disease
from which the individual rarely recovers. Ex. heart disease,
cancer, asthma
Dysfunction Ans: — an event that lessens the adjustment of a
social system; medicine prolongs life, contributing to
overpopulation
Etiology Ans: — the assignment of a cause, such as the major
causes of death in a country
Existentialist Philosophy Ans: — based on the doctrine that
existence takes presence over essence and holds that humans are
totally free and responsible for their acts, and that this
responsibility is the source of the dread and anguish that
encompass them
Eufunction Ans: — consequences of behaviour that are positive;
attending a funeral shows concern and care for others
Fictive Kin Ans: — Individuals referred to using kinship but who
are not related via kinship. Ex a godparent
Gerontophobia Ans: — the fear of growing old
Infant Mortality Rate Ans: — the number of deaths of children
under one year of age per 1000 live births
ISAS Ans: — symbolic interactionist's statement: behaviour of the
individual is in response to symbols, relative to the audience, and
relative to the situation
Latent Function Ans: — consequences that contribute to
adjustment but were not intended; attending a family funeral
becomes a family reunion
Manifest Function Ans: — objective consequences that contribute
to adjustment and were intended
© 2025 All rights reserved
, 2 | Page
Morbidity Ans: — the rare occurrence of a disease
Phenomenology Ans: — the philosophical study of phenomena
without any attempt at the nature of being studying; "the thing
itself"
Road Scholar Ans: — an informal educational program for
individuals 60 years or older.
Self-fulfilling Prophecy Ans: — a situation defined as real that
becomes real in its consequences when individuals are able to
make it so
sex ratio Ans: — the number of males per 100 females
socialization Ans: — the process by which individuals are
integrated into a social group by learning its values, goals, norms,
roles. Is a lifelong process that is never completed
Symbol Ans: — anything to which socially created meaning is
given
thanatology Ans: — the study of death-related behaviour including
actions and emotions concerned with dying, death, and
bereavement
brain death Ans: — the brain is totally and irreversibly dead.
cryonics Ans: — method of subjecting a corpse to extremely low
temperatures through the use of dry ice and nitrogen
curvilinear Ans: — referring to a type of nonlinear relationship
between two variables where at a certain point, associated with
increasing values in the independent variable, the relationship with
the dependent variable changes. A scattergram of this relationship
will look like a U
Death anxiety Ans: — a learned emotional response to death-
related phenomina characterized by extreme apprehension (death
fear)
dyad Ans: — two units regarded as a pair (husband and a wife)
© 2025 All rights reserved
