Revision - Psychology/sociology , core study, rosenhan

Indervidual differences

Aim
To illustrate experimentally the problems involved in particular the poor reliability of the diagnostic classification system (and its validity) the conserquenses of being diagnosed as abnormal and the effects of intitutionalistaiont.

Method
Participant obsevation
Feil experiment
Attempted to gain admission to 12 different hospitals in 5 differnt states in the USA

Participants - The 12 hospitals and hospital staff

Confederates
Eight sane people, a graduate student, three psychologystis, a peadiatrion, a painter, a housewife (three women five male)

Procedure - study one
Conferderates gained accsess to a psycatric hospital complaining of hearing voices, the voices said things like 'thud'
after they got admited they stopped pretending thy had any syptoms and actd perfectly sane.
They took part in ward activities and spent time writing notes
they had to get out by convincing the staff they were sane.

Study 2
The hosptial staff where told that psdopaitants would be entering the hospital and they had to try and spot them

Results - Study one
All but one confederate was admited to the hospital with a diagnosis of sschizophrenia
they raimaing in hospital for 7 to 52 days eventually realised with the label 'schizophrenia in remision'
They were not deteched by any staff however some of the paitents become suspisios.

General observaions
Lack of monertering - nurses in office 90%
of the time
Distortion of behaviour - 'Paitain angages with writing activities' and when they qued up early for lunch becuase they were boreed they sai 'paitaint has oral acisitive syndrom'
Lack of interation - 71% of psychatrists and 88% of nurses avertedtheir gaze when walking past when asked a simple question
Depersonalisation and powerlessness - lack of privacy
Medication - a total of 2100 tablets given to all confederates.

Study 2
Doctors spotted 41 out of 193 paitants as psdopaitants when in fact they were all real paitaince.

Conclusion
Confirms rosenhans inital hhypothosis: it is the setting as much as the inderviduals behaviour that leads to diagnosis.
we cannot distingush sanity from insanity in psycratric hospitals

Strengths
Good echological validity
Low demand charicteristings

Weaknesses
Lack of control
Difficult to replicate
Difficult to generalise (USA only)
Difficulties of recoding accurate and prompt details whist participating.

Ethics
Deception of hospital staff
No right to withdraw
No informed consent
Psychological halm (as attention was drwn to inability staff to diagnose abnormality)

Alternitave
Self reports from real paitants would improve the EV and remove the biased opinion of the pseudopatiants.

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[ayazchacha]

i swear i would pay for this stuff. FUCK. make more of these.and haha great song selection

[HannurrSpannurr]

@ayazchacha thanks, I cant make more, i had to give all my books back when i left school, and the syllabus has changed and i don't have a camera anymore :(

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[gbrepresent]

I will definitely pass my psychology exam tomm. after seeing this.

[HannurrSpannurr]

@gbrepresent good luck, I'm sure you'll do swell :)

[lAliceRmits]

haha!. our teacher showed us this in our

A2 psychology lesson when doing psychopathology. funny stuff. though it did help

[HannurrSpannurr]

argh, thats embarrassing.

[thefastflows]

brilliant ill defo pass my exams.

[Jrowley41]

thank you so much hannah, your video was a real help to my revision for my final psychology exam on tuesday.

[MegaSheep07]

hahaha this stuff is briliant! :)

[georgiegirlize]

Well done, you are brilliant!.. Gives me the idea to get my students to do some stuff like this - coming up!!!???

[xPrincessTayx]

our teacher put this on in class! he said it was a great way to learn, and told us to try making videos :D

[chessdragon88]

i tried really hard to watch the whole thing

[maankindj]

the most interesting of all is that the patients where more aware of it than the personal. good vid.! really good founded!

[SlipBillyWinston]

LOL I really liked your video.

[UAkram786]

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[anuer]

good stuff, helped with revision

[gbrepresent]

@HannurrSpannurr thanks girl sorry it took me so long to reply to you. I think I'm gonna pass the course cuz' I have enough credits so all I have to do is pass the final exam and I'm outta Croydon College and move on to uni, whooohoo!! :)