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Psych/Soc
Cumulative Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the science of social groups, the processes that tend to maintain or change these forms of organizations and the relations between groups | sociology |
| the science of vital statistics such as births, deaths, and marriages amongst populations | demographics |
| consists of abstract patterns (the rules, ideas, beliefs shared by members of society) for living and dying, learned directly or indirectly | culture |
| the method by which social values are internalized | enculturation |
| abstract patterns for living and dying which are identifiable in all cultures | cultural universal |
| the emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent | cultural relativism |
| the emotional attitude that one's own race, nation, group, or culture is superior to all others | ethnocentrism |
| must-behavior, the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as related to treatment of the dead which call for a strong reaction from the society if violated | mores |
| behaviors that are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society, and do not call for a strong reaction from the society if violated | folkways |
| must-behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts | taboo |
| social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people | customs |
| a must-behavior, not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people, but one which is enforced by those governing, a rule of action prescribed by an authority able to enforce its will | law |
| membership within household includes one man, one woman, and their children, if any | nuclear family |
| membership within household includes parents, children, and other family members (grandparents, aunts, uncles) | extended family |
| a household or a family unit created by related nuclear families and/or friendships-nuclear in the house and other family living nearby helps with family functions | modified extended family |
| two families coming together upon remarriage, the union of two distinct families | blended family |
| the father rules the family, power is passed to the oldest male child | patriarchal |
| the mother rules the family | matriarchal |
| male and female have equal rights, duties, and governing power | egalitarian |
| rural, patriarchal family where sons move near parents and bring their wives to live with them | joint family |
| two unrelated adults of the opposite sex sharing the same living quarters | cohabitants |
| individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods utilizing mass production techniques | industrialization |
| the change from rural to urban in character | urbanization |
| moving up or down (or within/among) social classes | class mobility |
| moving spatially wherever you want | geographic mobility |
| the tendency of offspring to move away from the area in which they were born | neo-localization |
| categorizing people based on social class | social stratification |
| the creation of a system that governs through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of officials following an inflexible routine | bureaucratization |
| an all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial services | funeral rite |
| a funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious connotation | humanistic funeral rite |
| a funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those directly involved, one that has been altered to suit the trends of the times | adaptive funeral rite |
| a funeral rite which may be construed as being identifiable with a pre-written record/pre-literate society | primitive funeral rite |
| the study of individual human behavior | psychology |
| said we're controlled by sex and aggression, we have a substantial unconscious that drives us | Sigmund Freud |
| built on Freud's work, sex not as important, said every person wants to be self-fulfilled | Carl Jung |
| client-centered therapy/person-centered approach, therapy should be non-directive | Carol Rogers |
| hierarchy of needs, people are essentially good, but sometimes we have needs that cause us to do bad things | Abraham Maslow |
| unconscious, irrational means used by the ego to defend against anxiety | ego defense mechanisms |
| a defense mechanism used in grief to return to more familiar and often more primitive modes of coping | regression |
| blocking of threatening material from consciousness | repression |
| the defense mechanism by which a person is unable or refuses to see things as they are because such facts are threatening to the self | denial |
| attribution of one's unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or behaviors to someone else | projection |
| redirection of emotion to other targets | displacement |
| supplying a logical, socially acceptable reason rather than the real reason for an action | rationalization |
| blame directed toward one's self based on real or unreal conditions | blame |
| the assumption of blame directed toward one's self by others | shame |
| blame directed toward another person | anger |
| therapy centered on the study of origins and consequences of thoughts, memories, beliefs, perceptions, explanations, and other mental processes | cognitive |
| therapy centered on amending behaviors | behavioral therapy |
| a medical doctor with a specialty in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, can prescribe | psychiatrist |
| a person who is involved in running psychological evaluations on people | psychologist |
| intervention with people whose needs are so specific that usually they can only be met by specially trained physicians-work with deeper levels of consciousness | psychotherapy |
| the individual who provides assistance and guidance | counselor |
| feelings and their expression | affect |
| attachment theory, who? | John Bowlby |
| we must form attachments by age ____ in order to develop normally | three |
| did experiment with wire monkey mothers and terry cloth monkey mothers to prove attachment more important than bodily needs | Bowlby |
| posed that children are not little adults, not until age 15 do they begin to have adult-like thoughts | Piaget |
| developed 8 stages of development that extends all the way through old age | Erik Erikson |
| said when a child can love, he can grieve | Earl Grollman |
| Grollman says at age ___ children can attend funerals and are encouraged to do so | seven |
| a deliberate act of killing oneself | suicide |
| suicide: best for other if I die | altruistic |
| suicide: I know best, I've decided it's best | egoistic |
| suicide: I'm dying anyway, I'll just end it now. | fatalistic |
| suicide: hopeless and disconnected from the world | anomic |
| sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant which remains unexplained after complete autopsy and a review of the circumstances around the death | SIDS |
| counseling in which a counselor shares a body of special information with a counselee | informational counseling |
| counselor takes a live speaking role, asking questions, suggesting courses of action | directive |
| client figures out what to do, takes longer, but they own their solution to their problem because they came up with it | non-directive |
| the ability to enter into and share the feelings of others | empathy |
| the ability to communicate the belief that everyone possesses the capacity and right to choose alternatives and make decisions | respect |
| the ability to be considerate and friendly as demonstrated by both verbal and nonverbal behaviors | warmth and caring |
| the ability to present oneself sincerely | genuineness |
| Wolfelt's characteristics of a good funeral director | empathy, respect, warmth and caring, genuineness |
| the act or event of separation or loss that results in the experience of grief | bereavement |
| an adjustment process that involves grief or sorrow over a period of time and helps in the reorganization of the life of an individual following a loss or death of someone loved-the external side of bereavement | mourning |
| an emotion or set of emotions due to a loss | grief |
| grief extending over a long period of time without resolve | chronic grief |
| persons are usually conscious of the relationship of the reaction to the death, but the reaction to the current experience is excessive and disabling | exaggerated grief |
| inhibited, suppressed, or postponed response to a loss | delayed grief |
| occurs when persons experience symptoms and behaviors which cause them difficulty, but do not see or recognize the fact that these are related to the loss | masked grief |
| you feel you do not deserve to show grief, so you hide it | disenfranchised grief |
| those appropriate and helpful acts of counseling that come after the funeral | aftercare |
| said counseling is giving advice | Webster |
| said counseling is helping | Jackson |
| posited Grief Syndrome | Eric Lindemann |
| 5 aspects of grief syndrome: | bodily distress, preoccupation with the deceased, guilt, anger at God, trouble functioning as before |
| three steps to crisis intervention, ABC | achieve contact (with the person in crisis), boil the problem down to its essentials, cope with the immediate problems |