Question 1

About how many deaths occur by suicide each year around the world?

Accepted Answer

1,000,000

Question 2

Compared to heart disease and cancer, suicide accounts for _____ in the United States

Accepted Answer

Less than 1/10 of the deaths

Question 3

Why do many people think that estimates of the rates of suicide are inaccurate?

Accepted Answer

The stigma associated with suicide makes people hesitate to report it

Question 4

In his Definition of suicide, Edwin Schneidman includes all factors except that it:

Accepted Answer

Results from depression or emotional distress

Question 5

According to Snyderman, the critical way in which the death seeker differs from the death darer is:

Accepted Answer

Seekers intend to end their lives with their action

Question 6

Cecil And Jeanne, teenagers, made a love pact, jumping from a cliff to be with each other for eternity. Cecil And Jeanne are examples of what Edwin Shneidman refers to as:

Accepted Answer

Death ignorers

Question 7

Ernest Hemingway was a physically strong, proud man who developed great concerns about his feeling body. Depressed about his progressive illness, intentionally ended his life. Edward Shneidman would term Hemingway a:

Accepted Answer

Death initiator

Question 8

According to Edwin Schneidman, how do death ignorers primarily differ from other categories?

Accepted Answer

They believe death will not end their existence

Question 9

According to Edwin Schneidman, people who are ambivalent about their intent to die and his actions leading to death do not guaranteed ( e.g., swimming in shock infested waters) are called:

Accepted Answer

Death darers

Question 10

Knowing she was terminally ill, Bonnie swallowed a handful of barbiturates to save herself and her family from final painful months of life. Bonnie is an example of what Edwin Schneidman refers to as a:

Accepted Answer

Death initiator

Question 11

A teenager\'s hands and arms are covered with self-inflicted burns, and the teenager seems almost addicted to this destructive behavior. The self-inflicted Burns would most likely be classified as:

Accepted Answer

Self injury, a variety of Edwin Schneiderman\'s \"sub intentional death\" classification

Question 12

Retrospective analysis of a suicide typically would include:

Accepted Answer

Interviews with people who knew the person who committed suicide

Question 13

Which is the best example of a retrospective analysis?

Accepted Answer

Therapists who had patients who committed suicide are interviewed to gain information on suicide

Question 14

One of the factors that is believed to account for differences in the suicide rates of different countries is:

Accepted Answer

Religious affiliation and beliefs

Question 15

Which statement about the relationship between religion and suicide is accurate?

Accepted Answer

Degree of one\'s devoutness is a more important predictor of suicide than one\'s specific religion

Question 16

Which statement is not true regarding suicide and gender?

Accepted Answer

Women succeed at committing suicide more often than do men

Question 17

Which would be the most surprising example of a suicide because it does not fit into the pattern that current research results have identified?

Accepted Answer

A woman who stabbed and then hanged herself

Question 18

According to current estimates, the suicide rate is highest in the United states among:

Accepted Answer

American Indians

Question 19

Assume that a community is made up of almost exactly equal numbers of these for groups: African-Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and white Americans, and that everyone is of the same Socio economic status. Approximately what percent of suicides would you expect to be committed by white Americans?

Accepted Answer

40% - about double the rates for the other groups

Question 20

How likely are women to use a gun to commit suicide?

Accepted Answer

About 30% of women who commit suicide use guns

Question 21

Which is true regarding war veterans\' risk of suicide once they return home?

Accepted Answer

War Vets are about twice as likely to commit suicide as are similar nonveterans

Question 22

Commonly observed triggers for suicide include all of these except:

Accepted Answer

Being in therapy

Question 23

Which is not a long-term stress or particularly common among those who attempt suicide?

Accepted Answer

Divorce

Question 24

Which occupation has a particularly high rate of suicide?

Accepted Answer

Psychologists

Question 25

The mood and thoughts of suicidal people are most often characterized as:

Accepted Answer

Sad and hopeless

Question 26

An increase in which emotion is most often linked to suicide?

Accepted Answer

Sadness

Question 27

A friend of yours wants certain heavy metal songs banned because, your friend says, listening to them will encourage suicidal tendencies. Your best reply, based on research, would be:

Accepted Answer

\"It probably won\'t work; experts don\'t agree with you, and the courts have not sound musicians liable.\"

Question 28

The current rating system for CD and music download lyrics was instituted:

Accepted Answer

In part to address people\'s concerns about links between listening to music and suicide attempts

Question 29

A person who sees life\" right a wrong,\" \"all or none \" terms is engaging in:

Accepted Answer

Dichotomous thinking

Question 30

Of the people who use alcohol just before committing suicide, what percentage are actually intoxicated?

Accepted Answer

25%

Question 31

Which is the most likely reason for the relationship between alcohol use and suicide?

Accepted Answer

Alcohol lowers and inhibitions and impairs judgment

Question 32

A friend asks, \"why is there such a strong connection between alcohol abuse and suicide risk?\" Based on the best available research, you reply:

Accepted Answer

No one knows for sure

Question 33

It is common that the majority of people who commit suicide also have another psychological disorder. Which would be the most common disorder associated with suicidal attempts?

Accepted Answer

Mood Disorders

Question 34

A clinically depressed individual who has been threatening suicide finally shows diminishing of depressive symptoms. This person\'s risk of committing suicide:

Accepted Answer

May have increased, because the person may have the energy to act on the suicidal impulses

Question 35

Based on the fact that one suicidal attempt can serve as a model for another, which would not be a common trigger for suicide attempts?

Accepted Answer

Suicides by the elderly

Question 36

Assume that a recent local suicide was clear case of modeling. The person who would most likely model another suicide would be a:

Accepted Answer

Teenager

Question 37

Which is the best example of the social contagion affect?

Accepted Answer

If you had a close relative or friend who committed suicide, your risk of committing suicide is greater

Question 38

As a political protest, two activists leap from a bridge in a highly publicized double suicide. Those most at risk for modeling the suicides are:

Accepted Answer

People with a history of emotional problems

Question 39

Suicide that are carried out in bizarre ways for political reasons are most likely to trigger:

Accepted Answer

Those with emotional problems to commit suicide in the same manner

Question 40

The leading theories designed to explain suicide:

Accepted Answer

Are not supported by significant body of research

Question 41

Research supporting a Freudian theory of suicide has shown that the later suicidal behaviors related to:

Accepted Answer

both real and symbolic losses in childhood

Question 42

If psychodynamic explanation for Suicide is correct, then suicide rates should:

Accepted Answer

Be lower in those who experience symbolic loss As children

Question 43

Emile Durkheim\'s theory of suicide fits into the:

Accepted Answer

Socio-cultural model

Question 44

Society that loses its basic family and religious Corvalla use, experiences large-scale immigration of people it\'s very different values, and fails to provide meaning for the life of this people is in danger of an Increase in what Durkheim calls:

Accepted Answer

Anomic suicide

Question 45

One is an atheist, does what he wants, and is alienated from others. He feels life isn\'t worth living and kill some self. According to Emile Durkheim, he would be classified as an:

Accepted Answer

Egoistic suicide

Question 46

Carlos died by intentionally stepping in front of a bullet that was intended for another young man, from Carlos, as head of a platoon of soldiers in the Persian Gulf war, was responsible. Emile Durkheim would call it an example of:

Accepted Answer

Altruistic suicide

Question 47

Young man his father and uncle committed suicide at about his age also commit suicide. What is the explanation of suicide most easily explaining the young man suicide?

Accepted Answer

Biological

Question 48

Strongest direct support for a biological explanation for suicide comes from:

Accepted Answer

The studies of neurotransmitter levels

Question 49

Research on the relationship between serotonin and suicide, serotonin seems most related to:

Accepted Answer

Aggression

Question 50

Which statement best reflects the relationship between serotonin suicide?

Accepted Answer

Low levels of serotonin are related to high levels of aggression and impulsivity

Question 51

The age group least likely to commit suicide United States is:

Accepted Answer

Children

Question 52

The \"typical\" child who commit suicide is a:

Accepted Answer

Boy who understands what death really is

Question 53

In what way do adolescent suicides not differ from suicides other age levels?

Accepted Answer

Many experience significant loss before the suicide

Question 54

Teenagers are different from people who are older than they are who commit suicide because teenagers are:

Accepted Answer

More impulsive and have poor problem-solving skills

Question 55

Among teenagers who attempt suicide:

Accepted Answer

Less than 1% succeed the first time, and about half will try again

Question 56

Which best supports the idea of the teenagers who attempt to decide on more uncertain about killing themselves than elderly people are?

Accepted Answer

Teenagers succeed at suicide only in about 1 in 200 attempts

Question 57

which statement is true?

Accepted Answer

More teenagers attempt suicide than actually kill themselves

Question 58

Research prompted by the \"black box\" controversy about using second-generation antidepressants with younger patients shows that taking second-generation antidepressants:

Accepted Answer

Decreases younger patients suicide rates overall, although some individuals are more likely to commit suicide

Question 59

The percentage of successful suicide attempts among the elderly is about:

Accepted Answer

If the times as high as the percentage of successful suicide attempts among adolescents

Question 60

For teenagers, the highest suicide rates are found among:

Accepted Answer

White Americans and American Indians

Question 61

The age group most likely to commit suicide in the United States is

Accepted Answer

The elderly

Question 62

A couple has been married for almost 50 years, and then one of them dies. The probability that the surviving spouse will commit suicide is:

Accepted Answer

Much higher than normal

Question 63

Which factor does not contribute to the high suicide rate among the elderly?

Accepted Answer

Geographical location

Question 64

In 1997, Oregon past the \"death with dignity act,\" which allows doctor assisted suicide for persons with terminal illness. Since 1997, on average, how many Oregonians with terminal illnesses have ended their lives each year?

Accepted Answer

About 500

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