Thanatology 2.2 SG Test Questions and Answers Latest Update already Passed

Thanatology 2.2 SG Test Questions and Answers Latest Update already Passed 1. Define Displacement - Answers Redirection of emotion to other targets 2. Define Sublimation - Answers aka grief; redirection of emotion to culturally or socially useful purposes 3. Supplying a logical, rational, socially acceptable reason rather than the real reason for an action. - Answers rationalization 4. List the 8 defense mechanisms the individuals may use at times of anxiety such as during periods of grief. - Answers Repression; Projection; Reaction Formation; Regression; Denial; Displacement; Sublimation; Rationalization 5. Define Emotions. - Answers feelings such as happiness, anger, or grief, created by brain patterns accompanied by bodily changes 6. Define Repression. - Answers blocking of threatening material from consciousness 7. Give an example of a Reaction formation. - Answers a competitive athlete who chooses to sit out a game/match/meet to prevent a potentially disheartening failure 8. Blocking of threatening material from consciousness is this type of defensive Mechanism - Answers repression 9. Define Projection - Answers attribution of one's inacceptable thoughts, feelings, or behaviors to someone else; the act of throwing forward; a part extending beyond the level of its surroundings 10. Attribution of one's unacceptable thoughts, feelings or behaviors to someone else. - Answers projection 11. The defense mechanism, closely related to repression, in which the individual simply denies the existence of the events that have aroused anxiety - Answers denial 12. A defense mechanism used in grief to return to more familiar and often more primitive modes of coping. - Answers regression 13. What is the most common feeling that is manifested during normal grief? - Answers sadness 14. Anger comes from what 2 sources during normal grief? - Answers frustration that there was nothing you could do to stop the death; regressive experience of being abandoned 15. Anxiety during normal grief can come from what two sources? - Answers Fear that the survivor will not be able to survive without the deceased; Increased personal death awareness of the survivor 16. Give an example of normal grief in which Emancipation is a positive feeling after a death. - Answers Survivor of an abusive relationship where abuser has died = end abuse 17. In what type of situations, will a bereaved typically feel relieved by the death? - Answers death was lengthy & painful; relationship was painful/difficult 18. What term describes the feeling of a bereaved person who has no feelings after the death of a close relative? - Answers Numbness 19. List 4 common physical manifestations of grief. - Answers hollowness in the stomach; tightness in the chest; tightness in the throat; oversensitivity to noise; depersonalization; breathlessness; muscle weakness; lack of energy; dry mouth 20. List 3 examples of cognitions that may accompany normal grief. - Answers Disbelief; Confusion; Preoccupation; Sense of Presence; Hallucinations 21. The cognition term that describes the thought that the person didn't't really die, but this is one bad nightmare (dream). - Answers Disbelief 22. The cognitive term that describes an obsession with thoughts about the deceased. - Answers Preoccupation 23. Define Bereavement. - Answers the experience of the emotion of grief; the event producing acute deprivation & loss due to death of one in whom emotional capital has been invested 24. The term defined by - 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. - Answers mourning 25. Define Grief. - Answers an emotion or set of emotions due to a loss that is involved in the work of mourning 26. Is there a difference between bereavement and grief? If so, what is the difference? - Answers Grief is an emotion Bereavement is a state of being associated with emotion 27. Is there a difference between grief and mourning? If so, what is the difference? - Answers Grief is an emotion Mourning is the response to processing grief 28. Define Thanatology. - Answers the study of death, especially the medical, emotional, and final problems associated with dying; the description of study of the phenomenon of somatic death 29. The term defined by - An abnormally great fear of death. - Answers thanatophobia 30. List the 4 categories of Manifestations of Grief. - Answers Feelings & Physical Sensations; Cognitions; Behaviors 31. Give 3 examples of feelings that may manifest themselves during grief. - Answers Sadness, Anger, Guilt & Self-Reproach, Anxiety, Loneliness, Fatigue, Helplessness, Shock, Yearning, Emancipation, Relief, Numbness 32. List 4 examples of normal behaviors that may accompany grief. - Answers sleep disturbances; appetite disturbances; absentminded behavior; social withdrawal; dreams of the deceased; avoiding reminders of the deceased; searching; calling out 33. A friend had complications during pregnancy. The baby was born and lived for 1 hour before dying. The surviving mother did not call or join her friends for a period of 6 weeks. This would be an example of what type of behavior? - Answers social withdrawal 34. The bereaved may behave by avoiding any reminders of the deceased. List some examples of how this can be done. - Answers avoid place of death; avoid cemetery; avoid reminding objects 35. List Worden's seven mediators of grief. - Answers Who the person who died was; The nature of the attachment; How the person died; Historical Antecedents; Personality variables; Social variables; Concurrent stresses 36. Give an example of a stigmatized death. - Answers suicide, abortions, AIDS 37. List the 6 aspects of Personality mediators. - Answers age, gender, coping styles, attachment style, self-esteem, assumptive world view 38. True or False: When a person has completed mourning, the person will be at a state that is identical to the pre-grief state. - Answers False 39. When is mourning finished? - Answers some say when bereaved can transfer love & energy from deceased to other relationships some say it never ends 40. What is meant by mediators of the grief process? - Answers aka factors aka determinants; the factors that influence the grief process 41. List the 5 aspects of the Mediator of the Nature of Attachment. - Answers strength of attachment; security of attachment; ambivalence in the relationship; conflicts with the deceased; dependent relationships often result in additional stress