Deck 5: The Dying Process

Question 1

Norms are plans of action or expected behavior patterns felt to be appropriate for a particular situation.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Patients and caregivers are usually comfortable in their roles relative to the dying process.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Dying people do not know inherently how to act when dying, and therefore they must discover a way to act appropriately.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

A terminally ill patient will always follow each of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' stages of the dying process in the order in which she defined them.

Question 5

Thee majority of U.S.physicians in the early 1960s were telling the terminally ill patient of his or her diagnosis, whereas currently most physicians are not in favor of telling the patient of the prognosis.

Question 6

Values are innate, rather than socially created.False

Question 7

Asian Americans favor honest and frank discussion regarding terminal diagnoses..

Question 8

Medical research has concluded that cancer can be easily passed from one person to another.

Question 9

Younger physicians have lower death anxiety that older physicians.

Question 10

A dying patient's "terminal" label becomes the "master status" for that individual because it dominates all other status indicators.

Question 11

Modern medical advances make it possible for physicians to give accurate predictions regarding the timing of death for terminal patients.

Question 12

The fifth stage of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' dying process is depression.

Question 13

People tend to fear the process of dying more than the event of death.

Question 14

Role meanings differ from norm meanings in that they specify what behavior is expected for persons occupying specific social positions.

Question 15

The first stage of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' dying process is anger.

Question 16

Societal disengagement is the process by which society withdraws from an individual's efforts.

Question 17

According to research by Richard Kalish, it was discovered that the vast majority of college students would be willing to be close friends with a dying person.

Question 18

Acording to Blackhall, black and white Americans are more likely to be honest with their family members regarding a terminal diagnosis than were Korean and Mexican American families..

Question 19

Physicians as a group tend to express more conscious death anxiety than do groups of individuals who are physically ill..

Question 20

Roles are plans of action or expected behavior patterns specifying what should be done by persons occupying particular social positions.

Question 21

The medical training of most physicians historically seems to be primarily concerned with the patient's physical state rather than social-psychological needs.

Question 22

According to anthropologist Colin Turnbull:

A)Americans know when it is time to die and accept that fact
B)Americans want to live forever
C)Africans know when it is time to die and accept that fact
D)Africans want to live forever
E)both b and c above are correct

Question 23

Which is a major criticism of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' stages of dying?

A)lacks universality
B)needs to be expanded upon to include other behaviors
C)does not take into consideration infant deaths
D)is too biologically oriented
E)does not take into consideration the death of the elderly

Question 24

Which is not one of the processes occurring within a health care facility which tends to diminish one's social and personal power, according to Rodney Coe?

A)stripping
B)control of resources
C)restriction on mobility
D)depression
E)all of the above are included in Coe's analysis

Question 25

Awareness contexts of Glaser and Strauss in a medical setting include ____ contexts.

A)one
B)two
C)three
D)four
E)five

Question 26

"Open awareness" is an awareness context whereby the dying patient suspects that he or she is dying but receives no verification from the medical staff.False
Multiple-Choice Questions

Question 27

"Situational adjustment" refers to changes in attitudes one undergoes as he or she goes through a professional school and is "molded" by this process.

Question 28

Younger physicians are more comfortable in dealing with dying patients than are older physicians.

Question 29

Female physicians tend to be more egalitarian in their relationships with patients and more respectful and responsive to patients' personal needs.

Question 30

A plan of action or expected behavior pattern thought to be appropriate for a particular situation is a(n):

A)status
B)norm
C)master status
D)value
E)plan

Question 31

Physicians with a high probability of relating to terminally ill patients tend to be more open with their patients than physicians practicing medicine in specialties with a lower probability of dealing with death.

Question 32

The status which dominates all other statuses in the mind of an individual is called the:

A)master status
B)salient status
C)primary status
D)best status
E)none of the above

Question 33

Physicians with a high probability of relating to terminally ill patients tend to be more open with their patients than physicians practicing medicine in specialties with a lower probability of dealing with death.

Question 34

"Open awareness" is an awareness context whereby the dying patient suspects that he or she is dying but receives no verification from the medical staff.False

Question 35

Which is correct regarding physicians' telling patients about their terminal condition?

A)in the early 1960s the majority of physicians told the patient the prognosis
B)physicians have historically been well prepared in medical school to tell the patient about his or her terminal condition
C)the majority of physicians today tell the terminally ill patient the prognosis
D)both b and c are correct
E)none of the above is correct

Question 36

The process whereby an individual withdraws from society or society withdraws from or no longer seeks the individual's efforts is known as:

A)withdrawal syndrome
B)phase-out behavior
C)activity theory
D)disengagement
E)depression response

Question 37

Tuesdays with Morrie is a book about a man who committed suicide.False

Question 38

A dead human body used in medical schools for the purpose of dissection to learn the body parts and systems is properly called:

A)stiff
B)corpse
C)cadaver
D)autopsy
E)none of the above

Question 39

Which is correct regarding space meanings for terminally ill patients?

A)behavioral clues of the medical staff will not give the patient any hint as to his or her situation
B)confinement in a health care institution is the first stage of societal disengagement for the terminally ill patient
C)confinement in a health care setting serves to diminish one's social and personal power
D)both b and c above are correct

Question 40

The terminal illness of a child in the family often changes the course of the sibling relationships, bringing the siblings closer together or reducing tensions between them.

Question 41

The awareness context of dying established by Glaser and Strauss and found in hospice is:

A)open
B)mutual pretense
C)closed
D)suspicion
E)none of the above

Question 42

Awareness contexts of dying were established by:

A)Merton and Coe
B)Becker and Kubler-Ross
C)Glaser and Strauss
D)Kavanaugh and Kamerman
E)none of the above

Question 43

"Situational adjustment" was a concept developed by a sociologist named:

A)Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
B)Robert Merton
C)Elliot Freidson
D)Rodney Coe
E)Howard Becker

Question 44

The third stage of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' stages of the dying process is:

A)bargaining
B)depression
C)shock and disbelief
D)acceptance
E)anger

Question 45

Anthropologist Myra Bluebond-Langner in working with leukemic children ages three to nine concluded:

A)these children were generally unaware of their dying condition
B)these children seemed to know that they were dying but felt that this was a reversible process
C)that the age of these children was not as important in their self awareness of their dying as their experience with the disease and its treatment
D)both b and c above are correct
E)none of the above

Question 46

In which stage of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's stages of the dying process does the patient realize that a mistake was not made in reading the x-rays and the prognosis is not good?

A)bargaining
B)depression
C)shock and disbelief
D)acceptance
E)anger

Question 47

The first stage of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' stages of the dying process is:

A)bargaining
B)depression
C)shock and disbelief
D)acceptance
E)anger