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Hint	Answer	% Correct
How many patients were rated as pseudo-patients by a psychiatrist and another member of staff?	19	67%
What was the average stay in the hospital?	19 days	67%
How many American states where the admission offices were located did they call?	5 states	67%
What was the title of his study?	On being sane in insane places	67%
What is the Clinical Psychology Classic Study?	Rosenhan (1973)	67%
What were 7 of them diagnosed with?	Schizophrenia in remission	67%
What % of nurses stopped and talked?	0.5%	33%
What % of faculty members stopped and talked?	100%	33%
How many psychiatrists responded to the pseudo-patients?	13	33%
How many faculty members responded to the student?	14	33%
How many attempts did the student make to contact faculty?	14	33%
How many patients were rated as pseudo-patients by at least one psychiatrist?	23	33%
What time span was given to the teaching and psychiatric hospital that 1 or more pseudo-patients would try to get admitted?	3 months	33%
How many hospitals did this study occur in?	4	33%
What % of psychiatrists stopped and talked?	4%	33%
What was the shortest stay?	7 days	33%
What were the voices saying?	'Empty', 'Thud' and 'Hollow'	33%
What was the anomole diagnosed with?	Manic depression with psychosis	33%
How many pseudo-patients were admitted?	No pseudo-patients were admitted	33%
How did they behave once inside?	Normally	33%
How many attempts did the pseudo-patients make to contact nurses?	1283	0%
How many attempts did the pseudo-patients make to contact psychiatrists?	185	0%
How many patients were assessed in the 3 months?	193	0%
How many patients were rated as pseudo-patients by at least two members of staff?	41	0%
How many nurses responded to the pseudo-patients?	47	0%
What was the longest stay?	52 days (Rosenhan)	0%
How many pseudopatients were there?	8, including Rosenhan. 5 men and 3 women with no mental health problems	0%
What were the responses compared to?	A student at Stanford University when she asked staff for help, such as how to find an area of campus	0%
Applications?	Criteria for diagnosis increases and highlighted the danger of labelling	0%
Generalisability?	Good as it looked at old and new hospitals, as well as well-staffed and under-staffed hospitals. However, you can't generalise across other cultures	0%
What did Rosenhan suggest?	He suggested that patients are powerless and the lack of eye contact depersonalises the patients.	0%
Ethics?	High confidentiality. Lack of informed consent, no right to withdraw and deception	0%
Ecological Validity?	High ecological validity as tasks have high mundane realism.	0%
What did each member of staff rate on a scale?	How likely that the pseudo-patients would be admitted	0%
Internal Validity?	Lack of controls and participant observation may mean that it was difficult to record all behaviours	0%
Issues and Debates	Medication can lead to social control, Socially sensitive research as hospital staff were undermined, DSM and ICD are constantly updated showing change over time	0%
Who recognised they were faking it?	Other mentally troubled patients	0%
What did the pseudo-patients say?	Pardon me, Mr/Mrs/Dr X, could you tell me when I will be eligible for ground privileges?	0%
Reliability?	Questions and symptoms were standardised however it was a field experiment and conversations with hospital staff couldn't be standardised	0%
What did Rosenhan conclude?	Rosenhan concluded that psychiatric patients were treated differently.	0%
What did a follow up test conclude?	That there is unreliability in the diagnosis process	0%
What was the conclusion?	The label given during diagnosis and then acted on within the institutions	0%
What was the conclusion to the study?	The staff were unable to detect insanity	0%
Why did Rosenhan carry out his third study?	To investigate how staff interacted with psychiatric patients, and compare this to non-psychiatric patients	0%
What was the aim?	To see if psychiatrists could differentiate between sane and insane people	0%
What was the aim of Rosenhan study 2?	To see if the hospitals, who had been told they would have pseudo-patients, would be able to identify the sane from the insane	0%