SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Rosenhan Experiment
6 Feb 2018
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"constructing an understanding of the social world from the data we get through our senses the processes by which we form impressions of other people"s traits and personalities. "we observe others" behaviour and then infer backward to causes that explain why people act as they do. Pseudo-patients entering psychiatric hospitals with "schizophrenic" symptoms. Despite their public "show" of sanity, the pseudopatients were never detected. Admitted, except in one case, with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, each was discharged with a diagnosis of schizophrenia "in remission. " The label "in remission" should in no way be dismissed as a formality, for at no time during any hospitalization had any question been raised about any pseudopatient"s simulation. Nor are there any indications in the hospital records that the pseudopatient"s status was suspect. Rather, the evidence is strong that, once labeled schizophrenic, the pseudopatient was stuck with that label.
