Exam 3: Growing up With Death

Psychologist Robert Kavanaugh refers to children as "little people" or "compact cars," rather than Cadillacs (big people), and notes that they should be able to handle any situation adults can handle comfortably.

Anthropologist Colin Turnbull describes death as being like it was before birth--a state of nothingness.

Baby Boomers are individuals born between 1946 and 1964. Multiple-Choice Questions

Maria Nagy in her studies of Hungarian children found that children aged five to nine personified death and represented death as a live person or some variation such as an angel or a skeleton.

The two periods of adolescence are 12 to 15 and 16 to 19.

Though the elderly tend to think of death more often than younger adults, they appear to have less fear concerning death.

Erik Erikson's last stage of the life cycle is called:

The idea of a "life review" was that of gerontologist:

In explaining death to children one should:

Young adults reject death because:

The social scientist who argued that fear and denial of death are basic dynamics for everyone was:

There seems to be a fascination with death during the adolescent years as witnessed by films and music produced for adolescents.

Death on television is often viewed as reversible.True

Gerontology is the study of the biological, psychological, and social aspects of aging.True

Media deaths allow children to learn about the true consequences of someone dying and to learn that death is a part of the real world.False

Between the ages of six and twelve, the evolution of the concept of death as a permanent cessation of life begins.

Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget argued that it is not until the late teen years and early twenties that one is capable of genuinely abstract thought processes.

The permanency of death is usually clear to a three-year old child.False

A latent function of a death in the family is that of a family reunion.

The first childhood death experience occurs around the average age of ________ years.