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This test bank covers key examination areas, including grieving and the issues in determining death. Presents meticulously developed delivers multiple choice questions with correct answers, detailed explanations, and glossary definitions categorized by complexity with correct responses, detailed explanations, and key term definitions. Extensive glossary guides and precise definitions facilitate comprehensive understanding and vocabulary development.
The learning goals consist of the following:
✓ Identify the challenges of coping with the death of another person.
✓ Evaluate issues involved in decisions about death.
Question 1
Other than pining for the lost person, which of the following is another dimension of grief over death?
- depression
- insomnia
- separation anxiety
- death wish
Correct Answer:
separation anxiety
Glossary:
Stranger Anxiety: An infant’s fear and wariness of strangers; it tends to appear during the second half of the first year of life.
Question 2
________ is the emotional numbness, disbelief, separation anxiety, despair, sadness, and loneliness that accompany the loss of a loved one.
- Grief
- Anger
- Obsession
- Denial
Correct Answer:
Grief
Glossary:
Grief: The emotional numbness, disbelief, separation anxiety, despair, sadness, and loneliness that accompany the loss of someone we love.
Question 3
An intermittent, recurrent wish or need to recover the deceased person is known as
- grief.
- pining.
- mourning.
- obsession.
Correct Answer:
pining.
Question 4
Which of the following most resembles the grieving process?
- a year-long period of major depression
- a roller coaster ride of emotions
- an orderly progression of stages
- a period of negative feelings that lasts around 3 months
Correct Answer:
a roller coaster ride of emotions
Glossary:
Emotion: Feeling, or affect, that occurs when a person is in a state or interaction that is important to him or her. Emotion is characterized by behavior that reflects (expresses) the pleasantness or unpleasantness of the state a person is in or the transactions being experienced.
Question 5
Jamie lost his wife many years ago. He is still experiencing enduring despair a year after her death. According to Prigerson and Maciejewski, this type of grief reaction would be labeled as ________ grief.
- depressive
- extended
- abnormal
- prolonged
Correct Answer:
prolonged
Glossary:
Grief: The emotional numbness, disbelief, separation anxiety, despair, sadness, and loneliness that accompany the loss of someone we love.
Question 6
A study by Kim revealed that finding meaning in the death of a spouse was linked to
- a higher level of denial during bereavement.
- a higher level of fear during bereavement.
- a lower level of acceptance during bereavement.
- a lower level of anger during bereavement.
Correct Answer:
a lower level of anger during bereavement.
Glossary:
Anger: Kübler-Ross’ second stage of dying, in which the dying person’s denial gives way to anger, resentment, rage, and envy.
Question 7
In ________, the deceased are forgotten as quickly as possible, and life is carried on as usual.
- the Hopi of Arizona
- Muslim societies in Egypt
- Japan
- Israel
Correct Answer:
the Hopi of Arizona
Question 8
Prolonged grief disorder is also known as ________ grief.
- depressive
- complicated
- abnormal
- extended
Correct Answer:
complicated
Glossary:
Prolonged Grief Disorder: Grief that involves enduring despair and remains unresolved over an extended period of time.
Question 9
Delilah lost her husband Hendricks in a highway accident. Being just 3 years into marriage, she was devastated. 4 months later, she was hassled by problems such as intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, nightmares, sleep disturbance, and problems in concentrating. Delilah is probably experiencing
- post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.
- restoration-oriented stress.
- post-traumatic embitterment disorder.
- separation anxiety.
Correct Answer:
post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.
Question 10
Deaths that are sudden, violent, or traumatic are likely to
- produce less intense feelings in survivors than if the person died of a long illness.
- produce a shorter grieving process for the survivors than if the person died of a long illness.
- produce more intense feelings in survivors than if the person died of a long illness.
- produce no difference in either the intensity or the duration of the feelings in survivors than if the person died of a long illness.
Correct Answer:
produce more intense feelings in survivors than if the person died of a long illness.
Glossary:
Grief: The emotional numbness, disbelief, separation anxiety, despair, sadness, and loneliness that accompany the loss of someone we love.
Question 11
________ describes an individual's grief over a deceased person that is a socially ambiguous loss and cannot be openly mourned or supported.
- Complicated grief
- Prolonged grief
- Extended grief
- Disenfranchised grief
Correct Answer:
Disenfranchised grief
Question 12
When Kendall was in college, she discovered that she was pregnant. Since she was not ready to have a baby at that age, she went through a medical abortion. Post the procedure, Kendall felt very low and upset and could not grieve openly as she wanted to keep her pregnancy a secret from everyone. Years later, when she had a miscarriage, she started grieving for the baby she lost and for the baby she had aborted. In this scenario, identify the type of grief Kendall is most likely displaying.
- complicated grief
- prolonged grief
- extended grief
- disenfranchised grief
Correct Answer:
disenfranchised grief
Question 13
Which of the following statements is true of grieving across cultures?
- Among the Hopi of Arizona, the bereaved are encouraged to dwell at length on their grief, surrounded by others who relate similarly tragic accounts and express their own sorrow.
- In Bali, the bereaved are encouraged to laugh and be joyful.
- In the United States, maintenance of ties with the deceased is accepted and sustained in the religious rituals.
- In Japan, the program of mourning is divided into graduated time periods, each with its appropriate practices.
Correct Answer:
In Bali, the bereaved are encouraged to laugh and be joyful.
Question 14
In general, maintenance of ties with the deceased is an accepted practice in
- Japan.
- the Hopi of Arizona.
- Bali.
- the United States.
Correct Answer:
Japan.
Question 15
Which of the following was considered to be clear signs of death 30 years ago?
- a flat EEG (electroencephalogram) reading for a specified period of time
- the end of certain biological functions such as breathing
- the end of electrical activity in the brain
- the lack of response to sensory stimuli
Correct Answer:
the end of certain biological functions such as breathing
Glossary:
Brain Death: A neurological definition of death. A person is brain dead when all electrical activity of the brain has ceased for a specified period of time. A flat EEG recording is one criterion of brain death.
Question 16
The ________ portions of the brain often die sooner than the ________ portions.
- lower; higher
- lower; middle
- higher; lower
- middle; lower
Correct Answer:
higher; lower
Glossary:
Low Birth Weight Infants: An infant that weighs less than 5 pounds 8 ounces at birth.
Question 17
If the cortical death definition were adopted, then physicians could claim a person is dead when his or her ________ brain area is no longer functioning.
- lower
- middle
- higher
- entire
Correct Answer:
higher
Question 18
Which of the following was considered to be a clear sign of death in the past?
- a flat EEG (electroencephalogram)
- moderate brain stem function
- lack of higher cortical brain function
- rigor mortis
Correct Answer:
rigor mortis
Glossary:
Primary Emotions: Emotions that are present in humans and other animals and emerge early in life; examples are joy, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust.
Question 19
Brain death occurs when
- all electrical activity of the brain has ceased for a specified period of time.
- a person remains unconscious for a specified period of time.
- only the lower regions of the brain stop functioning.
- the body loses the ability to breathe on its own.
Correct Answer:
all electrical activity of the brain has ceased for a specified period of time.
Glossary:
Brain Death: A neurological definition of death. A person is brain dead when all electrical activity of the brain has ceased for a specified period of time. A flat EEG recording is one criterion of brain death.
Question 20
Meghan is interning as a neurosurgeon in a children's hospital. During one of her hospital visits, a child is brought into the emergency trauma center. A senior doctor asks Meghan to examine the child and note down the child's vital statistics. Meghan notices that the EEG (electroencephalogram) reading has been showing a flat line for a long time. In this scenario, the flat EEG reading is most likely a criterion of ________.
- rigor mortis
- concussions
- brain death
- epileptic seizures
Correct Answer:
brain death
Glossary:
Brain Death: A neurological definition of death. A person is brain dead when all electrical activity of the brain has ceased for a specified period of time. A flat EEG recording is one criterion of brain death.
Question 21
A flat EEG (electroencephalogram) recording for a specified period of time is a criterion of
- rigor mortis.
- euthanasia.
- brain death.
- paralysis.
Correct Answer:
brain death.
Question 22
Naomi and Carla are first-year medical students. They are currently learning about the brain and its functions. Naomi is of the opinion that the cortical death definition should be adopted as the criterion for death. However, Carla disagrees with her. Which of the following statements best explains why Carla disagrees with Naomi?
- The cortical function areas of the brain monitor the heartbeat and respiration. If the cortical death definition were adopted, then physicians could declare a person dead as soon as the heartbeat and respiration stop.
- The functions one associates with being human, such as intelligence and personality, are located in the lower brain stem areas. Physicians believe that when these functions are lost, the "human being" is no longer alive.
- If the cortical death definition were adopted, then physicians could declare that a person is dead when there is no cortical functioning in that person, even though the lower brain stem is functioning.
- Individuals whose higher brain areas have died will not be able to breathe and have a heartbeat.
Correct Answer:
If the cortical death definition were adopted, then physicians could declare that a person is dead when there is no cortical functioning in that person, even though the lower brain stem is functioning.