PSY 349 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Organ Transplantation
12 Sep 2019
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Socialization (despelder & strickland chapter) - direct experience with death. Part i: smilansky (1987) death concept questionnaire. Causality (understanding of physical & biological causes that lead to death) Old age (biological sequence of life: birth, growth, aging, death) None of the tibetan children scored a mature understanding of death by the. Only 2 u. s. children scored a mature understanding of death. Impossible to determine because no tibetan children scored a mature understanding of death. No significant difference was found between tibetan and us children"s human, animal, or total death understanding. Discussion: possible explanations for children"s low scores on the smilansky measure: Several us children responded with medical-technological exceptions that questioned the concept of irreversibility of death. Maybe if he got an organ transplant? . What if they shocked her with those paddle things? (defibrillator) Many tibetan & us children differentiated between death of the physical body and continuation of the soul.
