ROSENHAN

Rosenhan had criticised the __ __ of mental illness as part of the ____ movement

Medical model, anti-psychiatry

Argued that the __ __ is too rigid

Classification system

Rosenhan was particularly interested in the __ and __ of the diagnosis process

Reliability, validity

AIM- to investigate whether mental health professionals can tell the difference between the __ and the __

Sane, insane

AIM-it investigate whether mental health professionals would consistently __ __ the same way

Diagnose symptoms

AIM-to investigate the consequences of being:

Labelled as insane

RESEARCH METHOD:

Field experiment

DESIGN:

Participant observation

IV:

The 12 different hospitals observed

DV(3):

-Admission to hospital or not

-Diagnosis received

-Experiences in hospital

SAMPLE:

The doctors and nurses in the mental health hospitals

STUDY 1- Researchers were _ ‘normal’ people

8

STUDY 1- visited _ hospitals in _ states

12, 5

STUDY 1-claimed they hear a voice saying __, __ and __

Empty, hollow, thud

STUDY 1-Participants were all __ __ and __ who were observed by researchers

Hospital staff, patients

1QUAN RESULTS- All pseudo patients were __ _ __, none were suspected of being pseudo patients

Admitted to hospital

1QUAN RESULTS- All pseudo patients were Admitted with the diagnosis of ___, 1 with ___

Schizophrenia, bipolar

1QUAN RESULTS-All had difficulty getting out (between __-__ days) average of __ says

7-52, 19

1QUAN RESULTS-All 12 hospitals discharged with the diagnosis of ‘schizophrenia in ___’

Remission

1QUAN RESULTS-___ pills were handed to the pseudo-patients

2,100

1QUAN RESULTS-Participants spent on average _ minutes per day with a senior member of staff

7

1QUAN RESULTS-Uni staff were more likely to __ __ to a request than psychiatric hospitals

Respond positively

__% of uni staff would stop and talk when questioned compared to _% of psychiatrists

100, 4

1QUAL RESULTS-Depersonalization-

Patients weren’t treated like people

1QUAL RESULTS-Powerlessness-

Patients couldn’t make their own decisions

1QUAL RESULTS-Stickiness of labels-

All patients behaviour was seen as being part of their behaviour

STUDY 2: a psychiatrist was told by Rosenhan that over a _ month period, pseudo patients would be sent to them who would try to gain __

3, admission

STUDY 2: __ real patients sought admission to the hospital over the period

193

STUDY 2: staff ere asked to rate on a __ __ how confident they were that a patient was a pseudo patients.

10-point scale

2RESULTS: __ patients were strongly regarded to be pseudo patients by at leats 2 members of staff

19

2RESULTS-__ patients were regarded as pseudo patients by one member of staff

41

CONCLUSIONS- the doctors made a variety of __ and __ __

Type 1, type 2 errors

CONCLUSIONS- psychiatrists do not have a __ or __ understanding of how to diagnose participants

Valid, reliable

CONCLUSIONS- psychiatrist medical model approach is ‘__ __’ it causes more harm than good

Counter therapeutic

CONCLUSIONS- patients are treated at a ___ level

Reductionalist

CONCLUSIONS- diagnosis is a form of __ that distorts people’s view of a patient

Labelling