study 2

Cards (4)

  • aim of rosenhan?
    to see if hospitals after being told they'll be approached by pseudopatients would be able to detect sane from insane
  • procedure of rosenhan?
    psychiatric hospital aware of findings from study 1 was informed over next 3 months one or more pseudopatients would try to get admitted to the hospital.
    • none were actually admitted
  • results of rosenhan?
    staff members rated patients on scale 1-10 as 'how likely to be a fraud'. 193 patients in total assessed.
    • 41 rated as pp by at least 2 members of staff
    • 23 rates as pp by at least 1 psychiatrist
    • 19 rated as pp by psychiatrist and one member of staff
  • conclusion of rosenhan?
    sanity wasn't detected