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| What was Rosenhan critical of? |
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| The use of labelling in the mental health profession. |
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| Why did Rosenhan think that psychiatric diagnoses can be subjective? |
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| Culture can affect the way an illness is perceived, and diagnoses can sometimes reflect the environment more than the individual. |
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| To test how reliable mental health professionals were at telling the sane and insane apart. |
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| How does Rosenhan's study relate to the anti-psychiatry movement? |
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| It is used as evidence by people who are critical of the reliability of diagnoses. |
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| How many hospitals were the pseudopatients sent to? |
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| How many pseudopatients were there in total? |
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| What was the gender difference in the pseudopatients? |
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| How many pseudopatients were somehow involved in the psychiatry field? |
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| 5; 1 was a psychiatrist, 3 were psychologists and 1 was a psychology grad student |
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| How much of their identity did the pseudopatients falsify? |
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| Names and occupations, but their family history stayed the same. |
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| At the start of the experiment, why did the pseudopatients call the hospital? |
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| They were complaining of hearing voices to try to be admitted. |
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| What were the voices the pseudopatients heard like? |
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| They said things like "empty" and "hollow" and were the same gender as the pseudopatient. |
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| How much did the hospital staff know about the experiment taking place? |
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| Only the grad student, who was conducting the research, was known to the hospital administrator and chief psychologist and no other staff members. |
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| What happened once the pseudopatients were admitted? |
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| They stopped displaying symptoms of schizophrenia, though some naturally displayed symptoms of anxiety and nervousness. |
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| What did the pseudopatients do while on the ward? |
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| They took notes, first covertly and then overtly. When staff asked them how they were feeling, they said they no longer experienced hallucinations. |
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| When were the pseudopatients discharged? |
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| When they convinced the staff they were no longer insane. |
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| Were the pseudopatients ever detected? |
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| How were the pseudopatients diagnosed when discharged? |
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| One with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, the others with a diagnosis of schizophrenia in remission |
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| How many real patients voiced suspicions about the pseudopatients? |
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| 35/118 real patients in the first three hospitalisations. |
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| How long were the pseudopatients hospitalised for? |
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| 7-52 days, with an average of 19 days. |
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| How are psychiatrists most likely to give an incorrect diagnosis and why? |
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| They are more likely to diagnose a sane person insane than vice versa, because underdiagnosis is more dangerous than overdiagnosis. |
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| What was the conclusion about how a patient was treated after being labelled insane? |
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| Their behaviour was misinterpreted because of the label, eg note-taking was thought to be a symptom of their disorder. |
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| What was the conclusion about how surroundings may affect a diagnosis? |
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| Behavoiurs caused by surroundings may be attributed to the disorder, eg one participant was pacing and was asked if nervous, was actually just bored. |
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| What did Rosenhan conclude about how treatments for mental disorders could be changed? |
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| Treatments could focus on specific behaviours rather than the whole disorder. |
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