Rosenhan

Question 1

What was the overall aim of this study?

Answer 1

To investigate the validity of psychiatric diagnosis and see if American hospitals could detect the sane from the insane.

Question 2

how many pseudopatients were in experiment 1?

Answer 2

8

Question 3

How many psychiatric hospitals were investigated and over how many states?

Answer 3

12 hospitals

5 states in America

Question 4

What words did the say they could hear?

Answer 4

empty
hollow
thud

Question 5

what were seudopatients admitted with?

Answer 5

7- schizophrenia

1- bipolar disorder

Question 6

What was the one condition?

Answer 6

could only get out on own devices

Question 7

What did the participants do?

Answer 7

They gave fake names, addresses and jobs but everything else was the truth.
As soon as they were admitted, they would say they felt fine and couldn’t hear the voices anymore.

Question 8

What was the average number of days spent in hospital?

Answer 8

19

Question 9

What was the highest number of days spent in hospital?

Answer 9

52

Question 10

What was the lowest number of days spent in hospital?

Answer 10

7

Question 11

What were some of the comments made by other patients?

Answer 11

“your a journalist”

“your not crazy”

Question 12

What was queuing behaviour?

Answer 12

Queuing early for lunch was seen as abnormal, diagnosed as oral acquisitive behaviour (made up disorder)

Question 13

What was writing behaviour?

Answer 13

records for 3 patients shown their writing was abnormal,

‘patient engages in writing behaviour’

Question 14

What was a type 2 error?

Answer 14

calling a healthy person sick

Question 15

What was a type 1 error?

Answer 15

calling a sick person healthy

Question 16

what was the procedure of experiment 2 ?

Answer 16

staff at a hospital were falsely informed that during the next 3 moths, 1 or more pseudo patients would be admitted to their hospital.
staff members were asked to rate on a scale the likelihood of them as being a seudopatients

Question 17

What scale rating did nurses use ?

Answer 17

on a 10 point scale (1=high confidence)

Question 18

what were the results of experiment 2?

Answer 18

out of 193 patients, 41 were judged with high confidence

Nurses made a type 1 error

Question 19

what happened in experiment 3 ?

Answer 19

In 4 of the hospitals, the pseudopatients carried out an observation, were they approach a staff member with a request.
then compared this to a young lady stopping people at Stanford.

Question 20

What was the request of the pseudopatients ?

Answer 20

“pardon me, Mr/Mrs, doctor X, could you tell me when I will be presented at the staff meeting? ( or when im likely to be discharged? )

Question 21

What did the young lady ask at Stanford university?

Answer 21

Asking directions, such as directions

Question 22

What was the IV of the experiment?

Answer 22

Young lady or pseudopatients

Question 23

How many of the nurses stopped?

Answer 23

0.5% stopped

Question 24

how many of the psychiatrists stopped?

Answer 24

4%

Question 25

How many people stopped for the pseudopatients?

Answer 25

everyone she spoke to

Question 26

what does the term stickiness to labels mean?

Answer 26

Psychiatric labels stick more than a medical label

Question 27

What’s an example of stickiness to labels?

Answer 27

When released, patients were diagnosed as ‘schizophrenic in remission’ not as being sane.

Question 28

Why is it worse to make a type 1 error when diagnosing mental illnesses ?

Answer 28

As patients might not receive treatment.

Question 29

What were some examples of depersonalisation?

Answer 29

Had to have physical examinations in semi-public rooms

nurse adjusted her bra in front of patients as if they weren’t there.

Question 30

What are examples of powerlessness ?

Answer 30

Some patients were physically beaten initiating a convo with staff.
Restricted movement on wards.
Privacy was not respected, some toilets didn’t have doors.
All staff had access to patients records even cleaners.

Question 31

What conclusions were drawn from this study?

Answer 31

Hospital staff cannot reliably tell the difference between people who are sane and insane.
Psychiatric labels tend to stick in a way that medical labels do not.