Rosen

Question 1

what are the 2 aims of the study

Answer 1

to see if 8 sane people who gained admission to 12 different hospitals would be found out as sane

to find out what the experience of being in such an institution was like and what it feels like to be viewed as insane

Question 2

give 4 AO1 points surrounding the sample

Answer 2

8 pseudopatients

3 psychologists, 1 undergraduate, 1 housewife and 1 painter

12 hospitals, 5 states, east and west

false names to protect identity

Question 3

procedure (5)

Answer 3

complained about hearing voices (empty, hollow, thud, which were the same sex, unfamiliar voices, unclear voices)

went to the admission office (standardisation)

resembled existential psychosis

they did not fake life stories

no swallowing medication (2100 medications)

7-52 days in hospitals (average 19 days), writing observations in notebooks,

Question 4

results

Answer 4

discharged with schizophrenia, 8th psuedopatient diagnosed with manic depression

335/118 claimed that the pseudopatients were faking it (‘you/re not crazy, you’re a journalist or professor, you’re checking up on the hospital’)

11.4% of time nurses spent out of cages

Question 5

reliability point

Answer 5

standardised procedure ‘hollow, empty, thud’, admission hospital, no swallowing medication

Lauren Slatter (2004) 9 psychaitric emeergency wards, auditory hallucinations, daignosed with psychotic depression and prescibed antipsychotics and antidepressants

Question 6

application

Question 7

validity

Answer 7

Seymour Ketty (1974) pseudopatients are faking a mental illness and therefore dont show the actual characteristics of someone with a real illness

pseudopatients might only record negative interactions between staff and patients

Question 8

ethics

Answer 8

deceiving the nurses present

names were not released (protection of identity)