8 Flashcards
Does mental illness actually exist
Some say that the diagnosis of schizophrenia is a violent act perpetrated by the medical community or others believe there’s no such thing as mental illness
What is the defense of Classification
That all patients have attributes at three levels those shared with all psychiatric patients those shared with only some other psychiatric patients those that are unique to them
Was Rosenhan an experiment
not an experiment even though there were independent burbles independent variables
Is there a cause and effect relationship
no because there’s only one condition
Why is the sample difficult
because you don’t know if the fake patients or the hospitals are the sample?
Why isn’t this experiment generalizable
the sample of the hospitals are not generalizable to all hospitals
What is the quality of the data for the clinic
Pseudo Patients noted recollections of what happened could be subjective