rosenhan

Question 1

what is rosenhan in terms of studies

Answer 1

classic studie

Question 2

what was the aim of rosenhans study

Answer 2

to investigate if sane people can be distinguished form insane people using the DSM2.
to test if the DSM2 is a valid diagnostic tool

Question 3

what where the pp called

Answer 3

psuedo-paitents

Question 4

how many psuedo paitents where there

Answer 4

8

Question 5

what happened to psuedo paitents

Answer 5

sent to 12 different hospitals across east and west

Question 6

where did the study occour

Answer 6

america

Question 7

what did the psuedo paitents give to phsyciatrist to protect their identity

Answer 7

false names and occupations

Question 8

what was the first stage in the procedure

Answer 8

interview with psychiatrists

Question 9

what did psuedo paitetns tell psychiatrists

Answer 9

that they could hear same sex voices saying empty, hollow and thud

Question 10

after psuedo paitents met with psychiatrist what happened

Answer 10

they where addmited to a psychiatric facility

Question 11

what did psuedo patents do once admitted to psychiatric facility

Answer 11

they behaved normally reporting they were free of symptoms.
took part in ward activities
reported on their experiences covertly at first but then overtly
when given pills they flushed them down the toilet

Question 12

how did psuedo paitents take notes

Answer 12

covertly at first but then overtly

Question 13

what where rosenhans findings

Answer 13

rosenhan found that 30% of real paitents noteced that psuedo paitents where behaving normally and where sane. saw that other paitents had also flushed away their pills.
psuedo paitents where diagnosed with additional things such as oral aquisition syndrome as they would queue early outside the canteen for lunch due to bordom.

Question 14

what did psuedo paitents find out about the staff at the facility

Answer 14

71% of psychiatrists and 88% of nurses ignored questions asked by the psuedo paitents
average therapist paitent contact was 11.3 mins a day

Question 15

what was the percent of nurses who ignored the psuedo paitents

Answer 15

88%

Question 16

what was the percent of psychiatrists who ignored the psuedo paitents

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71%

Question 17

what was the average therapist-paitent contact a day

Answer 17

11.3 mins

Question 18

what did rosenhan conclude

Answer 18

staff where unable to distinguish between those who where sane and insane.
bhehaviours where interpreted via the expectations expacted from diagnosis

Question 19

what is a strength of rosenhans study

Answer 19

ecological validity

Question 20

how is ecological validity a strenght of rosenhan

Answer 20

one strength of rosenhans reasearch is it’s ecological validity. as the study was a feild experiment and was conducted in real psychiatric facility with real nurses and psychiatrists, as well as other insane paitents the findings in the ability to distinguish between sane and insane behaviour is represenative of real life psychiatrifacilites and behaviour

Question 21

how can ecological validity support rosen han

Answer 21

t/f the study has ecological validity as the setting of a psychiatric ward is representaive of real live wards and so behaviour from staff i representalive of real life behaviour thus increasing the validity.

Question 22

what is a weakness of rosenhan

Answer 22

construct validity

Question 23

how does rosenhan lack constrcut validity

Answer 23

rosenhan found that 7/8 psuedo paitents where diagnosed with schizphrenia after reporting hearing same sex voices saying hollow echo and thud

Question 24

how does this allow is to lack construct validity

Answer 24

t/f the symptoms listed in the DSM 2 aren’t representaive enough to make a correct diagnosis as they lack construct validity

Question 25

what is anouther weakness of rosenhans study

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it’s ethnocentric

Question 26

how is rosenhans study ethnocentric

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rosenhan used a small sample size of 12 psuedo paitents who where all from america and 11 of where admitted to american pschyiatric facilites

Question 27

what does it being an ethnocentric sample mean

Answer 27

t/f this is an ethnocentric sample an the findings of the validity and diagnosis of the dsm2 and the distinguishment between sane and insane isn’t representative of a wider population due to the small sample size and so is ungeneralisable

Question 28

what is a strenght of rosenhan

Answer 28

standerdised procedure

Question 29

how does rosenhan have a standersised procedure

Answer 29

all psuedo paitents where instructed to s
list the same symptoms of saying they heard voices sying hollow, thud, and empty. all paitents where diagnosed using dsm 2. all paitents who where admitted where given the smae medication and same ammount that they disposed off

Question 30

how does this standerdised prcedure support rosenhans study

Answer 30

t/f cause and effect can easily be established meaning the study is reliable and can be replicated to produce consistant findings

Question 31

outline how rosenhans data is seen as primary data (2)

Answer 31

rosenhans data can be seen as primary data as it was collected first hand by both rosenhan and the psuedo paitents on the abuse from staff and nurses in the psychiatric facility. he then wrote the behaviour of nurses and psychiatrsists down to then analyse later