PSYC 3570 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Baby Boomers, Castration Anxiety, Psychosexual Development
16 Nov 2016
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By the end of this unit, you should be able to: Describe the cultural history of some of the major factors, across generations, which have influenced our society"s unwillingness to think about or acknowledge death. Compare the strengths and possible shortcomings of the two major classic theories pertaining to death anxiety (early psychoanalytic and the existential position), as well as two major contemporary theories (terror management and edge). Identify the ways in which death has been observed, proclaimed, and imagined through science, the arts, and the media. Paraphrase the medical, social, and ethical challenges posed by the major biomedical approaches that have been utilized to define and determine brain death, including the. Harvard criteria, which currently focuses on the need to establish whole brain vs. only neocortical death. Explain the major distinctions between death as an event and death as a state. Reflect on personal death-related attitudes and fears.
