Ch.7 Thio Suicide Full Test Bank - Deviant Behavior 11th Edition Test Bank with Answer Key by Alex Thio. DOCX document preview.
CHAPTER SEVEN: SUICIDE
Multiple Choice Questions
- Each year, about __________ Americans die by their own hands.
- 50,000
- 30,000
- 70,000
- 100,000
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 144
2. The majority of depressed Americans do not kill themselves; those who do commit suicide do so because they have been under the influence of
a) defects in their personality.
b) certain social forces in their lives.
c) drugs and alcohol.
d) their bad health.
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 144
3. Those who threaten suicide
a) usually attempt suicide.
b) would rather live than die.
c) usually commit suicide.
d) are socially functional.
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 145
4. If a person wanted to attempt suicide, but was not sure he or she wanted to die, which of the following methods would be the least favored?
a) wrist cutting
b) gas poisoning in a house
c) gas poisoning in a car
d) hanging or shooting
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 145-146
5. In the last two decades, the gender difference in suicide attempts has
a) widened substantially.
b) increase substantially.
c) narrowed significantly.
d) remained about the same.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 146
6. Which of the following is a way suicide attempters differ from suicide committers?
a) They are more likely to be men than women.
b) They use different methods but with more skill.
c) They are much fewer in number than committers.
d) They are more likely to be young.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 145-146
7. From notes left by successful suicides and from reports given by suicide attempters, we can discern several types of suicidal feelings. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
a) feeling apologetic to their survivors
b) feeling excited about the prospect of seeing God
c) feeling vindictive toward their survivors or themselves
d) feeling suffused with surrealistic feelings
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 147
8. If a person kills him- or herself after murdering another, it is called __________ suicide.
a) revenge
b) surrealistic
c) apologetic
d) atonement
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 147
9. In general, cutters are
a) a unified deviant group.
b) all suicidal.
c) gun enthusiasts and collectors.
d) difficult to situate in a category of deviance.
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 148-149
10. Some countries with developing economies like China have high suicide rates because they
a) have widespread poverty.
b) practice forms of ritual suicide.
c) experience rapid social change.
d) have few formal religious institutions.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 165-166
11. In the past, most researchers attributed the link between urbanization and suicide to
a) the city’s homogeneous population.
b) the slower pace of life in urban neighborhoods.
c) conflicting social norms.
d) economic inequality.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 152-153
12. Generally, whites commit suicide
a) at the same rate as blacks.
b) twice as often as blacks
c) four times more than blacks.
d) mostly in the summer.
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 154-155
13. A strong religious identity and degree of religious conservatism is associated with a(n) _______ suicide rate.
a) higher
b) extremely higher
c) lower
d) unaffected
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 155-156
14. Which of the following groups has the highest suicide rates?
a) divorced persons
b) married persons
c) widows
d) single parents with children
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 156-157
15. Which of the following statements is FALSE?
a) The elderly have a higher suicide rate than the young.
b) Whites have a higher suicide rate than blacks.
c) Women have a higher suicide rate than men.
d) Residents in sparsely populated states have higher suicide rates than residents in densely populated states.
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 155-156
16. Which of the following statements about the relationship between economic conditions and suicide is TRUE?
a) Suicide rates are higher in affluent societies than in poor ones.
b) Suicide rates are about the same from society to society, regardless of affluence or poverty.
c) African Americans, whose poverty rate is relatively higher, are more likely to kill themselves than are whites, who have a lower poverty rate.
d) Blacks and whites have about the same rate of suicide.
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 158
17. Which of the following statements about the suicide bombers who attacked the U.S. on 9/11/2001 is TRUE?
a) They were all psychotic and irrational.
b) They were from poor families and were paid to commit suicide.
c) They were more poorly educated than other from their respective countries.
d) They came from relatively well-off, middle-class families.
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 159-160
18. Over the last 20 years, teenage suicides have
a) increased dramatically.
b) decreased dramatically.
c) remained about the same.
d) not increased as much as suicides among the elderly.
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 160
19. The high rise in youthful suicide over the last 20 years has resulted from
a) a great decline in social integration and regulation in teen life.
b) the worsening of the nation’s economy.
c) a dramatic increase in publicity about suicide.
d) a substantial increase in school pressure.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 160-161
20. College students in the United States have higher suicide rates than their non-college peers because they
a) are exposed to deviant ideologies, which sometimes support suicide.
b) experience substantial peer group influence.
c) use too much drugs and alcohol.
d) are single and experience much stress.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 161-162
21. At what point is an inmate’’ stay at prison most likely to result in suicide?
a) after several years of a long sentence
b) after denial of a parole
c) when transferred from a local to a state prison
d) during the initial phase of imprisonment
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 163-164
22. One of the reasons why recently diagnosed, less-sick, HIV-infected patients are more suicidal than those dying of AIDS-related illnesses is
a) that HIV is more serious than AIDS.
b) the sudden transformation from being a totally healthy person to a seriously ill person.
c) that HIV is much more painful than AIDS.
d) the greater difficulty in living with the HIV virus.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 164-165
23. When a famous person commits suicide, the nation’s suicide rates
a) go up.
b) stay the same.
c) decline.
D) either go up or down.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 165
24. Research has documented that the greater the air time given to country music, the higher the suicide rate. Which of the following is a possible reason?
a) the relative boredom surrounding country music, which upsets its listeners
b) the presence of religious themes in country music
c) the lonely lifestyles of the urban residents who listen to country music
d) the themes of country music, many of which are suicide-related
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 165
25. Research has shown a positive correlation between suicide rates and the air time of this genre of music.
a) classical
b) country
c) rock and roll
d) heavy metal
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 165
26. Suicide rates depend significantly on
a) biological predispositions.
b) psychological problems.
c) how society responds to suicide.
d) individual predispositions.
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 165-166
27. In Western societies today, higher suicide rates are due in part to
a) increasingly permissive attitudes toward suicide.
b) increasing criminal penalties against suicide.
c) a growing intolerance toward state-assisted suicides.
d) a decline in religious beliefs.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 166
28. Which of the following is the most typical reaction of a suicide victim’s family and friends?
a) glee
b) resolve
c) depression
d) guilt
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 167
29. The Patient’s Self-Determination Act passed by Congress requires hospitals to
a) take every measure to prevent suicide.
b) inform patients of rights to control their treatment through living wills.
c) arrest any doctors who provide any suicide assistance.
d) instruct doctors to remove life support, regardless of the patient’s wishes.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 167-168
30. All of the following are conditions under which doctors in the Netherlands can
carry out euthanasia, EXCEPT that
a) it must be requested by the patient.
b) the patient must be mentally competent.
c) it must be approved by a panel of government officials.
d) the patient must have a disease with no prospect for improvement.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 168
31. Even though few persons have requested assisted suicide in Oregon, that state’s assisted suicide law has been gaining support throughout the U.S. because of growing
recognition of the patient’s
a) unbearable pain.
b) loss of quality of life.
c) right to privacy and to be left alone.
d) wishes to die for all of the above reasons.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 168
32. In the last 20 years, during which the number of suicide prevention centers has increased tremendously, the suicide rate has
a) decreased substantially.
b) not declined substantially.
c) risen dramatically.
d) increased faster among the old than the young.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 169
33. Suicide prevention centers cannot substantially reduce suicide rates because
a) suicide is basically a psychological problem.
b) they cannot deal effectively with some individual types of potential suicides.
c) suicide is basically a sociological problem.
d) they rely too much on a social work perspective to guide their work.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 169
34. Psychological theories of suicide assume that suicide comes from
a) a defect in the person.
b) poor food and environmental pollution.
c) genetic factors.
d) major social problems.
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 169
35. Durkheim theorized that there are two major forces shaping suicide, social integration and
a) social strain.
b) social inequality.
c) social regulation.
d) social change.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 170-171
36. The type of suicide that unmarried people are more likely than married ones to commit is called __________ suicide.
a) egoistic
b) coerced
c) altruistic
d) anomic
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 171
37. The type of suicide that slaves are more likely than free people to commit is called __________ suicide.
a) egoistic
b) fatalistic
c) anomic
d) voluntary
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 171
38. According to Henry and Short’s theory, all of the following are factors that promote suicide, EXCEPT for the
a) sociological.
b) psychological.
c) economic.
d) cultural.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 172-173
39. Phenomenological theories of suicide
a) deal with the causation of suicide.
b) are based heavily on official suicide statistics.
c) deal with the popular meaning of suicide.
d) are based on biological conceptions of human behavior.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 173-174
40. In Douglas’s view, the specific meanings of suicide to individuals help to
a) obstruct the suicidal process.
b) facilitate the suicidal process.
c) change the suicide-prone’s mind.
d) create enormous guilt feelings in the suicide-prone person.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 173-174
41. According to Jerry Jacobs’s theory of the suicidal process, suicide victims overcome prohibitions against suicide through a series of events. What is the first stage of this process?
a) praying to God for forgiveness
b) believing that death is the only way to solve a personal problem
c) finding themselves faced with unexpected and unsolvable problems
d) feeling isolated and therefore free to act on one’s own, thereby overcoming the prohibition against suicide
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 174-175
42. Which of the following groups of people has the LOWEST suicide rates?
a) married women with children
b) single women
c) single men with children
d) married men with no children
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 156
43. In his study on suicide, Emile Durkheim showed that
a) the individual act of suicide has social implications.
b) people with greater connections with society are less likely to commit suicide.
c) too much integration and individualism can lead to suicide.
d) All of the above
Difficulty: 3
Page Reference: 170-172
True/False Questions
1. Suicide is a relatively rare form of deviant behavior, but it is more common than homicide.
True
False
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 144
2. Suicide is basically a mental disorder, and sociology has little to say about it.
True
False
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 144
3. Compared with suicide threateners, suicide attempters are more ambiguous in expressing their suicidal feelings.
True
False
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 145
4. One kind of reason suicide committers give for their action is a surrealistic view of reality.
True
False
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 147
5. All cutters attempt suicide.
True
False
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 150
6. Cutters fall into the “loner” category of deviance.
True
False
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 149
7. Recent research has suggested that practicing Christians have a higher suicide rate than nominal Christians.
True
False
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 155
8. In practically all countries, men are more prone to suicide than women.
True
False
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 155-156
9. Compared with young workers, college students enjoy an easier life and therefore have a greater immunity to suicide.
True
False
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 161-162
10. Well-publicized suicides actually lead to a temporary reduction in suicide rates.
True
False
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 165
11. The suicide bombers who attacked the U.S. on 9/11/2001 came from poor families and were paid to commit suicide.
True
False
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 159-160
12. Persons who listen to country music have higher suicide rates.
True
False
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 165
13. Almost all Americans argue that suicide is wrong, immoral behavior.
True
False
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 166-167
14. Americans have established a large suicide prevention network that has effectively reduced the suicide rate.
True
False
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 169
15. The main impact of the Oregon assisted suicide law has been to create more support for assisted suicide throughout the U.S.
True
False
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 168
16. Sociological theories, as opposed to psychological ones, assume that the causes of suicide reside within rather that outside of the individual.
True
False
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 169-170
17. Durkheim argued that the extent of group integration and regulation influences suicide rates.
True
False
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 170-171
18. Henry and Short’s theory of suicide contains the concept of external restraint, which is similar to Durkheim’s idea of “social regulation.”
True
False
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 172
19. To phenomenological sociologists, the official statistics are seriously unreliable.
True
False
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 173
20. Jacobs assumes that suicide is no longer defined by our society as “a violation of the sacred, God-given trust of life.”
True
False
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 174
21. Compared with suicide threateners, suicide attempters are more detailed in expressing their suicidal thoughts and feelings.
True
False
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 145-146
22. The Internet has helped to de-stigmatize cutting.
True
False
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 149-150
23. Societies whose cultures are communal in nature tend to have higher rates of suicides, compared to societies that are more individualistic.
True
False
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 154-155
24. According to the Durkheimian model, people with too much individualism commit altruistic suicide.
True
False
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 170-171
25. Greater air time of heavy metal music tends to lead to greater suicide rates.
True
False
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 165
Fill-In Questions
1. Suicide __________ are explicit in communicating their suicidal intention to others.
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 145-146
2. ________ as a life crisis has gotten worse over the last 30 years, leading to a huge rise in the numbers of suicide.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 160-161
3. __________ noted that “the best way of proving to one’s self and to others that one is a member of a certain group is to place a distinctive mark on the body.”
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 150-151
4. The frequent radio broadcast of __________ tends to promote suicide by reinforcing the suicidal moods of listeners.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 165
5. Sociologists generally believe that the causes of suicide reside within the __________ to which the individual belongs.
Difficulty: 1
Page Reference: 170
6. The phenomenological approach to suicide is non-etiological and focuses instead on the __________ of suicide to attempters and committers.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 173-174
7. Publicized suicide of a celebrity tends to lead to a(n) __________ in suicide rates.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 165
8. According to the Durkheimian model on suicide, Kamikaze pilots commit __________ suicide.
Difficulty: 1
Page-Reference: 159-160
Essay Questions
1. Compare and contrast suicide attempters and persons who successfully commit suicide. How are attempters and committers the same or different in terms of motive, communication, weapon chosen, and other factors?
Difficulty: 3
Page Reference: 145-146
2. Choose and discuss several social factors that seem to increase the suicide rate. What are those factors, and why do they seem to increase the rate of suicide?
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 152-159
3. State and defend your position on an individual’s right to die. Can people make this choice? If so, under what circumstances? Why do some people oppose this right?
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 167-168
4. Analyze why individuals choose to harm or mutilate themselves. In your response, discuss the factors that have led to the de-stigmatization of cutting and other body markings.
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 148-151
5. Compare and contrast psychological and Durkheimian explanations of suicide. How do they differ? What are their assumptions about human behavior in general?
Difficulty: 2
Page Reference: 170-173
6. Suicide is more of a sociological problem than a psychological problem. Create an argument agreeing or disagreeing with this statement.
Difficulty: 3
Page Reference: 144-174
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