DVP - Chapter 10

• is the study of death and dying. Today,

  death occurs at a later stage, takes longer, and more often

  occurs in hospitals. The major causes of death have also

  shifted from infectious diseases to chronic illnesses such

  as cardiovascular disease and cancer.

  Thanatology
• describes the five phases of

  grief (DENIAL, ANGER, BARGAINING,

  DEPRESSION, AND ACCEPTANCE) through which

  people pass in grappling with the knowledge that they are

  or someone close to them is dying.

  Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• refers to when someone who

  survives a serious injury and had an out of body

  experience.

  Near-Death Experience
• is one that is swift, painless, and dignified,

  and that occurs at home surrounded by friends and

  families.

  Good Death
• is an alternative to hospital care that seeks

  to minimize suffering and to make the last days of life

  filled with love and meaning. Hospices provide the dying

  with skilled medical care but avoid death-terrifying

  interventions.

  Hospice
• is medical care that is designed not to

  treat an illness but to relieve pain and suffering.

  Palliative Care
• for dying patients may have a double

  effect of reducing pain while speeding up death.

  Pain Medication
• a seriously ill person is allowed

  to die naturally, through the cessation of medical

  interventions. The dying person’s chart may read DNR

  (do not resuscitate).

  In Passive Euthanasia
• someone intentionally acts to

  terminate the life of a suffering person. However, it is

  illegal in most parts of the world.

  Inactive Euthanasia
• refers to the sense of loss following a

  death.

  Bereavement
• refers to an individual’s emotional response to

  this sense of loss.

  Grief
• refers to the ceremonies and behaviors that

  religion or culture prescribes for bereaved people.

  Mourning
• indicate what

  medical intervention they want if they become incapable

  of expressing those wishes.

  Living Will
• who can

  make decisions for them on the spot if needed.

  Healthcare Proxy
• markings initiations into

  adulthood.

  Rites of Passage
• Period between late teens and

  mid- to late 20s when individuals are not adolescents but

  are not yet fully adults.

  Emerging Adulthood
• movement into the next stage of

  development marked by assumptions of new

  responsibilities and duties.

  Role Transition
• the desire to live life more on the edge

  through physically and emotionally threatening

  situations on the boundary between life and death.

  Edgework
• students college students over age

  25.

  Returning College
• sixth stage of Erikson’s theory

  and the major psychosocial task for young adults.

  Intimacy Vs. Isolation
• crisis the struggle of finding one’s way into the “real world”

  Quarter Life
• feeling unable to enter adult roles.

  Locked-out form
• feeling trapped in adult roles.

  Locked-in form
• independence reflects the longer time

  it takes more recent generations to traverse the

  challenges of early adulthood.

  Commitment
• type of drinking defined for men as

  consuming five or more drinks in a row and for women

  as consuming four or more drinks in a row within the

  past two weeks.

  Binge Drinking
• Drinking pattern that results

  in significant and recurrent consequences that reflects

  loss of reliable control over alcohol use.

  Alcohol Use Disorder
• how much energy the body needs.

  Metabolism
• chemicals that

  cause fatty deposits to accumulate in arteries, impeding

  blood flow.

  Low-Density Lipoproteins (LDL)
• chemicals that

  help keep arteries clear and break down ldls.

  High-Density Lipoproteins (HDL)
• ratio of body weight and

  height related to total body fat.

  Body Mass Index
• characteristics of theories of

  intelligence that identify several types of intellectual

  abilities.

  Multidimensional
• development pattern in which some

  aspects of intelligence improve and other aspects

  decline during adulthood.

  Multidirectional
• patterns of change that

  vary from one person to another.

  Interindividual Variability
• concept that intellectual abilities are not

  fixed but can be modified under the right conditions at

  just about any point in adulthood.

  Plasticity
• the organization of

  interrelated intellectual abilities.

  Structure of Intelligence
• the interrelated abilities measured by two tests

  if the performance on one test is highly related to

  performance on another.

  Factor
• groups of related

  intellectual skills that subsume and organize the

  primary abilities.

  Primary Mental Abilities
• broader intellectual skills

  that subsume and organized the primary abilities.

  Secondary Mental Abilities
• abilities that makes you a flexible

  and adaptive thinker, allow you to make inferences, and

  enable you to understand the relations among concepts.

  Fluid Intelligence
• the knowledge you have

  acquired through life experience and education in a

  particular culture.

  Crystallized Intelligence