Social Psychology 9th Edition by David Myers

Exercise 15

Rosenhan and his colleagues (faked schizophrenic symptoms to infiltrate mental hospitals. Once they had been admitted and no longer complained of any fake symptoms,
A) professional clinicians quickly distinguished them from the real patients and released them from the hospital.
B) the clinicians sought and found evidence in their histories and behavior to confirm their admitting diagnoses.
C) the pseudo-patients were ostracized by the hospital's real patients.
D) the pseudo-patients absorbed their "sick" roles and developed additional symptoms in the course of their treatment.