Rosenhans Study

Question 0

____ sane people gained secret admission to 12 different hospitals.

Answer 0

Eight

Question 1

At the heart of the study was the question of whether the ____ can be distinguished from the ____.

Answer 1

sane : insane

Question 2

After calling the hospital for an appointment, the pseudopatient arrived at the admissions office complaining that he had been ____ ____.

Answer 2

hearing voices

Question 3

Asked what the voices said, he replied that they were often unclear, but as far as he could tell they said “____”, “____”, and “____”.

Answer 3

empty : hollow : thud

Question 4

Immediately upon admission to the psychic ward, the pseudopatient ____ ____ any symptoms of the abnormality.

Answer 4

ceased simulating

Question 5

Admitted with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, each was discharged with a diagnosis of ____ “in ____”.

Answer 5

schizophrenia “in remission”

Question 6

Once ____ schizophrenic, the pseudopatient was stuck with that label.

Answer 6

labeled

Question 7

If the pseudo patient was to be discharged, he must naturally be “in remission”; but he was not ____, nor, in the institutions view, had he ever been ____.

Answer 7

sane

Question 8

The uniform failure to recognise sanity cannot be attributed to the ____ of the ____ for several were considered excellent.

Answer 8

quality of the hospitals

Question 9

Nor can it be alleged that there was simply not enough time to ____ the pseudo patients. Pseudo patients were in hospital an average of 19 days.

Answer 9

observe

Question 10

It cannot be said that the failure to recognise the pseudo patients sanity was due to the fact that they were not behaving ____ .

Answer 10

sanely

Question 11

The fact that ____ often recognised normality when staff did not raises important questions.

Answer 11

patients

Question 12

Failure to detect sanity during the course of hospitalisation may be due to the fact that physicians operate with a strong bias towards what statisticians call the _______.

Answer 12

type 2 error

Question 13

This is to sat that physicians are more inclined to call a ____ person ____ (a false positive, type 2) than a sick person healthy (a false negative, type 1).

Answer 13

healthy person sick

Question 14

It is clearly more dangerous to misdiagnose ____ than ____. Better to err on the side of caution, to suspect illness even among the healthy.

Answer 14

illness than health

Question 15

It is clear that we cannot distinguish the ____ from the ____ in psychiatric hospitals.

Answer 15

sane from the insane

Question 16

The hospital itself imposes a special environment in which the meanings of behaviour can easily be ____.

Answer 16

misunderstood

Question 17

One possible solution is community mental health services. Clearly, to the extent that we refrain from sending the distressed to insane places, our impressions of them are less likely to be ____.

Answer 17

distorted

Question 18

Another solution maybe increasing the sensitivity of ____ ____ ____ are to position of psychiatric patients.

Answer 18

mental health workers