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Lifespan Development

Check Your Understanding Questions

Lifespan DevelopmentCheck Your Understanding Questions
20 .
Explain the difference between biological death, clinical death, cardiopulmonary death, and brain death.
21 .
Describe the dying trajectories initially proposed by Glaser and Strauss and later added to by Lunney. Drawing pictures of them is fine as long as you describe what is happening in the pictures.
22 .
According to terror management theory, how do people react when they feel their sense of self is being threatened, such as by thoughts of their own death?
23 .
What factors influence how comforting religion can be when coping with death?
24 .
How do individualistic and collectivistic cultures define the role of the patient, family, and doctor in making end-of-life decisions?
25 .
What are the basic goals and practices of hospice care?
26 .
Explain the difference between a will, a living will, and a health-care proxy.
27 .
Explain the difference between active and passive euthanasia, giving a specific example of each.
28 .
Explain the difference between grief, mourning, and bereavement.
29 .
What are some of the physical effects of grief and why do they occur?
30 .
Explain the similarities and differences between life review and reminiscence.
31 .
What factors contribute to life satisfaction?
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