Question 1

What is Rosenhan's central question?&#10;A) Do depression and anxiety truly exist?&#10;B) What is the difference between mental illness and schizophrenia?&#10;C) Can the sane be distinguished from the insane?&#10;D) How do medical professionals treat the mentally ill?

Accepted Answer

Rosenhan's central question is whether or not the sane can be distinguished from the insane, focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness.

Question 2

Why is Rosenhan's research so cutting-edge?&#10;A) Few researchers have experienced living in a psychiatric institution.&#10;B) Few people were diagnosed with mental illness in the 1970s.&#10;C) Few researchers are able to tell the difference between sane and insane.&#10;D) Few people understand the difference between mental illness and insanity.

Accepted Answer

Rosenhan's research was considered cutting-edge because few researchers had actually experienced living in a psychiatric institution. His research challenged the very nature of psychiatric diagnosis and raised questions about the validity of clinical judgments.

Question 3

The pseudopatients' occupations included all of the following except ______.&#10;A) housewife&#10;B) pediatrician&#10;C) endodontist&#10;D) psychologist

Accepted Answer

The pseudopatients in the Rosenhan experiment included a housewife, a pediatrician, and a psychologist, but not an endodontist.

Question 4

What immediately happened when the pseudopatient was admitted to the psychiatric unit?&#10;A) He or she stopped displaying abnormal symptoms.&#10;B) He or she began reporting hallucinations.&#10;C) He or she was given medication.&#10;D) He or she became disruptive to staff and patients.

Accepted Answer

The pseudopatient stopped displaying abnormal symptoms once admitted, as they were part of an experiment to test the validity of psychiatric diagnoses.

Question 5

The majority of the pseudopatients were admitted with a diagnosis of ______.&#10;A) bipolar disorder&#10;B) anxiety&#10;C) conduct disorder&#10;D) schizophrenia

Accepted Answer

The article states that "all were diagnosed as schizophrenic upon admission except for one who was diagnosed with manic-depressive psychosis." Therefore, the majority (or all except one) were diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Question 6

Who typically recognized the pseudopatients' sanity?&#10;A) the nurses&#10;B) the psychologists&#10;C) the patients&#10;D) the physicians

Accepted Answer

The patients were more likely to recognize the pseudopatients' sanity because they interacted with them on a daily basis and could observe their normal behaviors up close, unlike the staff who were influenced by the context of the psychiatric hospital and the diagnoses.

Question 7

Which of the following is an example of type 2 error?&#10;A) Patients are more inclined to display symptoms of abnormality when with others.&#10;B) Patients are more inclined to display symptoms of abnormality when alone.&#10;C) Physicians are more inclined to call a sick person healthy than a healthy person sick.&#10;D) Physicians are more inclined to call a healthy person sick than a sick person healthy.

Accepted Answer

Type 2 error is a statistical error where the null hypothesis is not rejected even though it is false. In this case, option D is an example of a type 2 error as the physician incorrectly identifies a healthy person as sick, meaning that the null hypothesis (the person is healthy) is not rejected even though it is false. Options A and B describe patient behavior and do not relate to hypothesis testing, while option C describes a type 1 error (incorrectly rejecting the null hypothesis).

Question 8

Results indicated that failure to detect sanity during the course of hospitalization may be attributed to ______.&#10;A) the fact that pseudopatients were not behaving sanely&#10;B) the quality of the hospitals&#10;C) the fact that there was insufficient time to observe the pseudopatients&#10;D) the type 2 error

Accepted Answer

Type 2 error refers to failing to detect a condition when it is present. In the context of failing to detect sanity, it implies that the system or observers incorrectly concluded that the pseudopatients were not sane, even though they were. This is a classic example of a type 2 error, where the true condition (sanity) fails to be recognized.

Question 9

Which of the following is true about notetaking while in the hospital?&#10;A) The pseudopatients were allowed to take extensive notes publicly.&#10;B) Staff was suspicious of notetaking but allowed it to continue under close supervision.&#10;C) The pseudopatients were allowed to take notes each day but could not remove them from the dayroom.&#10;D) Staff prevented the pseudopatients from taking notes or recording any information throughout their hospital stay.

Accepted Answer

The pseudopatients in the Rosenhan experiment were allowed to take extensive notes publicly, and their notetaking was often ignored or considered part of their pathological behavior.

Question 10

The author's research informs the study of ______.&#10;A) social deviance&#10;B) health care&#10;C) criminal law&#10;D) involuntary institutionalization

Accepted Answer

The author's research is related to social deviance, as stated in the passage.

Question 11

Explain the author's statement that a psychiatric label has a life and influence of its own.

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Question 12

Discuss how the perception of one's circumstances was shaped entirely by one's diagnosis.

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Question 13

Why do you think the psychiatric community continues to use diagnoses, even though they are unreliable?

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Question 14

What was the purpose of the author's second experiment discussed in the reading?

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Question 15

Which two sociological theories informed Rosenhan's research?

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Deck 6: On Being Sane in Insane Places