6. Why did all bar one of the sane, normal pseudopatients get admitted into the hospital?
Doctors have a strong bias towards a type 2 error, calling a healthy person sick rather than a sick person healthy
Because doctors have not yet perfected the diagnosing system, there is much leeway between illnesses
The doctors were not experianced enough to tell the difference between a true schizophrenic and someone who is lying
7. Why did the staff members think that the real patients in experiment two were pseudopatients?
Because they saw that they were acting more normally than the other patients
Because they were trying to avoid making type 2 errors as they thought that normal sane people were going to come in to the ward.
Because they couldn't tell the difference
8. How many real patients were thought to be psuedopatients by at least one staff member?
56
70
41
22
9. Who were the people who had to try to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital?
Rosenhan and his researchers posed as the 'psuedopatients'
8 Pseudopatients who were of various ages and professions
10 people who had actual schiszophrenic tendancies
10. They also found that the patients were being depersonalised as only 4% of psychiatrists and 0.5% of nurses stopped to talk to the pseudopatients when they asked them questions.
