| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Thanatology is the study of _____. | death and dying life expectancy biological aging adulthood |
| In Erik Erikson’s developmental stages of life, with which challenge must older people struggle? | Overcoming despair to achieve integrity Overcoming role confusion to achieve identity Overcoming isolation to achieve intimacy Overcoming shame to achieve autonomy |
| Who wrote the book On Death and Dying, outlining the five stages of grief? | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Ignatz Nascher Erik Erikson Carol Gilligan |
| For individual people of a certain culture, the life course is ________. | the typical sequence of events in their lives the average age they will die the lessons they must learn the length of a typical bereavement period |
| In the United States, life expectancy rates in recent decades have ______. | continued to gradually rise gone up and down due to global issues such as military conflicts lowered as healthcare improves stayed the same since the mid-1960s |
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