Deck 6: On Being Sane in Insane Places

Question 1

What is Rosenhan's central question?

A) Do depression and anxiety truly exist?
B) What is the difference between mental illness and schizophrenia?
C) Can the sane be distinguished from the insane?
D) How do medical professionals treat the mentally ill?

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Why is Rosenhan's research so cutting-edge?

A) Few researchers have experienced living in a psychiatric institution.
B) Few people were diagnosed with mental illness in the 1970s.
C) Few researchers are able to tell the difference between sane and insane.
D) Few people understand the difference between mental illness and insanity.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The pseudopatients' occupations included all of the following except ______.

A) housewife
B) pediatrician
C) endodontist
D) psychologist

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What immediately happened when the pseudopatient was admitted to the psychiatric unit?

A) He or she stopped displaying abnormal symptoms.
B) He or she began reporting hallucinations.
C) He or she was given medication.
D) He or she became disruptive to staff and patients.

Question 5

The majority of the pseudopatients were admitted with a diagnosis of ______.

A) bipolar disorder
B) anxiety
C) conduct disorder
D) schizophrenia

Question 6

Who typically recognized the pseudopatients' sanity?

A) the nurses
B) the psychologists
C) the patients
D) the physicians

Question 7

Which of the following is an example of type 2 error?

A) Patients are more inclined to display symptoms of abnormality when with others.
B) Patients are more inclined to display symptoms of abnormality when alone.
C) Physicians are more inclined to call a sick person healthy than a healthy person sick.
D) Physicians are more inclined to call a healthy person sick than a sick person healthy.

Question 8

Results indicated that failure to detect sanity during the course of hospitalization may be attributed to ______.

A) the fact that pseudopatients were not behaving sanely
B) the quality of the hospitals
C) the fact that there was insufficient time to observe the pseudopatients
D) the type 2 error

Question 9

Which of the following is true about notetaking while in the hospital?

A) The pseudopatients were allowed to take extensive notes publicly.
B) Staff was suspicious of notetaking but allowed it to continue under close supervision.
C) The pseudopatients were allowed to take notes each day but could not remove them from the dayroom.
D) Staff prevented the pseudopatients from taking notes or recording any information throughout their hospital stay.

Question 10

The author's research informs the study of ______.

A) social deviance
B) health care
C) criminal law
D) involuntary institutionalization

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

Which two sociological theories informed Rosenhan's research?