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Rosenhan Study - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 6 times
- The average score is 9 of 46
Answer Stats
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| How many patients were rated as pseudo-patients by a psychiatrist and another member of staff? | 19 | 67%
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| What was the average stay in the hospital? | 19 days | 67%
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| How many American states where the admission offices were located did they call? | 5 states | 67%
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| What was the title of his study? | On being sane in insane places | 67%
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| What is the Clinical Psychology Classic Study? | Rosenhan (1973) | 67%
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| What were 7 of them diagnosed with? | Schizophrenia in remission | 67%
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| What % of nurses stopped and talked? | 0.5% | 33%
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| What % of faculty members stopped and talked? | 100% | 33%
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| How many psychiatrists responded to the pseudo-patients? | 13 | 33%
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| How many attempts did the student make to contact faculty? | 14 | 33%
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| How many faculty members responded to the student? | 14 | 33%
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| How many patients were rated as pseudo-patients by at least one psychiatrist? | 23 | 33%
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| What time span was given to the teaching and psychiatric hospital that 1 or more pseudo-patients would try to get admitted? | 3 months | 33%
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| How many hospitals did this study occur in? | 4 | 33%
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| What % of psychiatrists stopped and talked? | 4% | 33%
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| What was the shortest stay? | 7 days | 33%
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| What were the voices saying? | 'Empty', 'Thud' and 'Hollow' | 33%
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| What was the anomole diagnosed with? | Manic depression with psychosis | 33%
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| How many pseudo-patients were admitted? | No pseudo-patients were admitted | 33%
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| How did they behave once inside? | Normally | 33%
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| How many attempts did the pseudo-patients make to contact nurses? | 1283 | 0%
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| How many attempts did the pseudo-patients make to contact psychiatrists? | 185 | 0%
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| How many patients were assessed in the 3 months? | 193 | 0%
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| How many patients were rated as pseudo-patients by at least two members of staff? | 41 | 0%
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| How many nurses responded to the pseudo-patients? | 47 | 0%
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| What was the longest stay? | 52 days (Rosenhan) | 0%
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| How many pseudopatients were there? | 8, including Rosenhan. 5 men and 3 women with no mental health problems | 0%
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| What were the responses compared to? | A student at Stanford University when she asked staff for help, such as how to find an area of campus | 0%
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| Applications? | Criteria for diagnosis increases and highlighted the danger of labelling | 0%
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| Generalisability? | Good as it looked at old and new hospitals, as well as well-staffed and under-staffed hospitals. However, you can't generalise across other cultures | 0%
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| What did Rosenhan suggest? | He suggested that patients are powerless and the lack of eye contact depersonalises the patients. | 0%
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| Ethics? | High confidentiality. Lack of informed consent, no right to withdraw and deception | 0%
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| Ecological Validity? | High ecological validity as tasks have high mundane realism. | 0%
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| What did each member of staff rate on a scale? | How likely that the pseudo-patients would be admitted | 0%
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| Internal Validity? | Lack of controls and participant observation may mean that it was difficult to record all behaviours | 0%
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| Issues and Debates | Medication can lead to social control, Socially sensitive research as hospital staff were undermined, DSM and ICD are constantly updated showing change over time | 0%
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| Who recognised they were faking it? | Other mentally troubled patients | 0%
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| What did the pseudo-patients say? | Pardon me, Mr/Mrs/Dr X, could you tell me when I will be eligible for ground privileges? | 0%
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| Reliability? | Questions and symptoms were standardised however it was a field experiment and conversations with hospital staff couldn't be standardised | 0%
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| What did Rosenhan conclude? | Rosenhan concluded that psychiatric patients were treated differently. | 0%
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| What did a follow up test conclude? | That there is unreliability in the diagnosis process | 0%
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| What was the conclusion? | The label given during diagnosis and then acted on within the institutions | 0%
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| What was the conclusion to the study? | The staff were unable to detect insanity | 0%
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| Why did Rosenhan carry out his third study? | To investigate how staff interacted with psychiatric patients, and compare this to non-psychiatric patients | 0%
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| What was the aim? | To see if psychiatrists could differentiate between sane and insane people | 0%
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| What was the aim of Rosenhan study 2? | To see if the hospitals, who had been told they would have pseudo-patients, would be able to identify the sane from the insane | 0%
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