Rosenhan's Study on Mental Illness Diagnosis

What were the two aims of Rosenhan's research?

• To test how accurate hospitals are at diagnosing mental illness

• To analyse the effectiveness of medication for psychiatric patients

• To find out the experiences of being hospitalised in a institution

• Investigate how well paid doctors and staff at mental institutions are

What was the term given to the researchers who were faking thier symptoms of mental illness so they could gain admission to the hospitals?

• hypopatient
• falsifiedpatient
• pretendpatient
• pseudopatient

To gain entry to the hospitals, the pseudopatients said they could hear a voice saying the words "hollow", "empty" and ....?

What was the average length the pseudopatient was in hopspital for, before they were recognised as sane and discharged?

• 30 days

• 19 days

• 10 days
• 5 days

Normal behaviour was often viewed as insane by the doctors in the hospital. For example, queuing for lunch was seen as ....

• Collectors Crave

• Oral Acquisitive Syndrome

• Meal Queue Fixation Disorder

• Waitlist Nourishment Obession

Why was normal behaviour (like queueing for food) seen as being insane by doctors?

True or False: Researchers observed that the real patients at the hospital were treated well.

• True

• False

What examples of mistreatement of patients were observed?

• Ignored by staff members

• Beaten by staff

• Monitored in the toilet

• All of the above

What percentage of psychiatrists would stop and chat to patients when approached by the pseudopatient?

• 52%

• 2%

• 17%

• 79%

At university when a female student asked to speak to someone, she was ignored 0% of the time, but when a pseudopatient wanted to speak to a staff member in the hospital they were ignored 88% of the time. Why is there such a difference in these results?