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Flashcards by Celeste Drouin-Davis, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Celeste Drouin-Davis
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Aim | to challenge the diagnostic system for mental health because he wanted to prove that the diagnosis is effected by observer bias and to raise the awareness of the conditions in psychiatric hospitals. |
| Participants | 12 hospitals, staff and patients in the USA of good, old, bad, and new. Across 5 different states. |
| Procedure | 8 pseudo-patients -3 women and 5 men which had no history of mental health issues called their given hospital for an appointment because they where hearing voices. 'empty, thud and hollow' |
| What happened after the appointment? | All were admitted with schizophrenia apart from one who was diagnosed with manic depression with psychosis. |
| What happened after admission? | All pseudo-patients stopped reporting their symptoms and acted normally. They were cooperative and friendly with the staff. They recorded all their observations by writing notes. They would have regular visitors which said that they were sane. |
| How many pseudo-patients were admitted on minimal symptoms? | All of them. this shows that the hospitals are not ethical themselves as they could be putting people into mental hospitals when they didn't need it. |
| What was never detected by the staff? | Sanity. All patients were sent home with schizophrenia in remission. The patients in the hospital noticed their sanity. |
| How many questions were answered? | 0/185 questions were answered. 71% were ignored. 23% eye contact was made. 2% verbal response. |
| What did Rosenhan conclude? | That he was right, the system was easily fooled. |
| What happened after the study was released? | The hospital didn't believe the results and said that their system was fool proof. Rosenhan challenged the system again. He sent in no pseudo-patients but the hospital thought there was 41 pseudo-patients. |
| What's wrong with the study being conducted in 1973? | This makes it time-bound. it might not be reliable to today's system |
| How does the second challenge of the system improve the study? | It improves the reliability of the study as it shows it is reproducible with similar results. |
| What issue is raised because of it only being done in America? | This makes it ethnocentric as it doesn't consider other cultures in other countries. |
| How does using 12 hospitals over 5 states effect the study? | This raises its reliability and generalisabilty. |
| How does the participants being blind effect the study? | It raises the reliability because there would be no demand characteristics from the participants. However, this does mean that the patients did not have consent and were deceived. |
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