Question 1

Give a brief description of the Taoist view of life and death.

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Question 2

Which of the following is NOT consistent with terror management theory?

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A)  High self-esteem provides protection against death anxiety. 
B)  Society encourages evasions and fantasies as protection against death anxiety. 
C)  Developing one's own accurate view of personal dying and death provides protection against death anxiety. 
D)  People should act in accordance with their society's collective representation.

Question 3

Most self-report studies find that:

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A)  women have higher death anxiety scores than men 
B)  elderly adults have higher death anxiety scores than younger adults 
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.

Question 4

Observing your own responses to self-inventory of attitudes, beliefs, and feelings toward death is part of the self-monitoring process that has been found invaluable by many people who work systematically with death-related issues.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Most self-report studies find that the general population has a ______ level of death anxiety.

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A)  very low 
B)  low to moderate 
C)  moderate to high 
D)  very high

Question 6

Personal experience with dying and death influences our:

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A)  attitudes and beliefs 
B)  beliefs 
C)  feelings and attitudes 
D)  attitudes, beliefs, and feelings.

Question 7

List and explain any three factors concerning the interpersonal side of acceptance and denial.

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Question 8

What is the definition of the terms
-Fatalism

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-Fatalism...

Question 9

It is unusual for people to experience an upsurge of death anxiety when they realize how close they have come to being killed in a motor vehicle accident.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

"We cannot really fear death, because we cannot really imagine our own death." This statement is at the core of the ______ death anxiety theory.

Accepted Answer

A)  existential 
B)  terror management 
C)  early Freudian psychoanalytic 
D)  edge.

Question 11

Death anxiety tends to be relatively high in adolescence and early adulthood.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Homicide rates have been consistently the highest in Southern states.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

What is the definition of the terms
-Mortality salience

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-Mortality...

Question 14

Acceptance and denial can be evaluated only when we are in a position to understand the context a given person is in, what is trying to be accomplished, and what is being faced.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

What is the definition of the terms
-Terror management theory

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-Terror...

Question 16

Prolongation of life was the primary mission of:

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A)  alchemy 
B)  astronomy 
C)  necromancy 
D)  nepotism.

Question 17

A study found that those who crossed the street in a high risk-taking manner were:

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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.

Question 18

What is the definition of the terms
-Taoism

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-Taoism...

Question 19

List any five social conditions that limited individuals in their understanding of death-related issues, and then demonstrate how not thinking about death was a failed experiment.

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Question 20

Upon viewing his friend Ivan Ilych's corpse, Peter Ivanovich:

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A)  prayed for both Ilych's soul and his own 
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.

Exam 1: As We Think About Death

Give a brief description of the Taoist view of life and death.

Which of the following is NOT consistent with terror management theory?

Most self-report studies find that:

Observing your own responses to self-inventory of attitudes, beliefs, and feelings toward death is part of the self-monitoring process that has been found invaluable by many people who work systematically with death-related issues.

Most self-report studies find that the general population has a ______ level of death anxiety.

Personal experience with dying and death influences our:

List and explain any three factors concerning the interpersonal side of acceptance and denial.

What is the definition of the terms -Fatalism

It is unusual for people to experience an upsurge of death anxiety when they realize how close they have come to being killed in a motor vehicle accident.

"We cannot really fear death, because we cannot really imagine our own death." This statement is at the core of the ______ death anxiety theory.

Death anxiety tends to be relatively high in adolescence and early adulthood.

Homicide rates have been consistently the highest in Southern states.

What is the definition of the terms -Mortality salience

Acceptance and denial can be evaluated only when we are in a position to understand the context a given person is in, what is trying to be accomplished, and what is being faced.

What is the definition of the terms -Terror management theory

Prolongation of life was the primary mission of:

A study found that those who crossed the street in a high risk-taking manner were:

What is the definition of the terms -Taoism

List any five social conditions that limited individuals in their understanding of death-related issues, and then demonstrate how not thinking about death was a failed experiment.

Upon viewing his friend Ivan Ilych's corpse, Peter Ivanovich: