Rosenham Flashcards

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1
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what was Rosenhan’s aim?

A

to investigate if sane people who present themselves to a psychiatric hospital would be diagnosed as being insane

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what was Rosenhan’s sample?

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12 different hospitals across 5 states including a range of modern and old, well-staffed and poorly-staffed and 1 privately owned

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3
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how many states were the sample across?

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5

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4
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who were the pseudo patients?

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5 men and 3 women ranged in backgrounds

including a housewife, psychologists a painter etc

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what was the procedure?

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1-pseudo-patients call psychiatric hospitals complaining of symptoms of an existential crises
2-admitted into hospitals
3-observed patient when admitted

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6
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what words did they claim to hear? (3)

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  • empty
  • hollow
  • -thud
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7
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how did the pseudo-patients describe the voice in their head?

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muffled

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what did the pseudo-patients claim when they were admitted into the psychiatric hospitals

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claimed the voice in their head had stopped and told real-life stories once admitted

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what observational method was used by the pseudopatients? (3)

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natural, participant covert observation

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what results did Rosenhan collect? (3)

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  • 100% of pseudopatients were diagnosed with mental illness
  • normal behaviours were observed as symptoms
  • saneness was noticed by patients
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11
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how many pills were handed to the pseudopatients?

how many swallowed?

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2100 given

-2 swallowed

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12
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what was the range of days spent in the hospitals?

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7-52 days

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13
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what were the pseudopatients diagnosed with?

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7=schizophrenic

1=manic depression

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14
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how were the pseudopatients released?

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released as schizophrenic in remission

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15
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how long did real patients spend with psychiatric staff?

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less than 7 minutes per day

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16
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how many real patients voiced their suspicions about the pseudo patients?

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35/118

17
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AO3- GENERALISABILITY (4)

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+various style of hospitals
+hospitals across 5 states
-USA only
-small sample-12 hospitals

18
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AO3-RELIABILITY (2)

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+standardised procedure-ringing hospitals with the same symptoms- better reliability
+across 5 states all apart from 1 diagnosed with same scz-inter-rater reliability

19
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AO3-APPLICABILITY (2)

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+can learn from conditions of the hospital

+DSM updated harder to be diagnosed with scz now

20
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AO3-VALIDITY (4)

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+ecological validity- staff and patients in natural setting
+internal validity- low demand characteristics-staff didn’t know they were being observed
-validity issues- lied about symptoms so of course diagnosis will be wrong- showed demand characteristics
-observations-subjective to pseudopatients

21
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AO3-ETHICS

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+Rosenhan trained pseudopatients-competent
-deception used-lied about symptoms
-withdrawal-pseudopatients couldn’t leave until discharged
-harm to pseudopatients
+odentities protected