PSYCH 111 Chapter 29: Reading 29
17 May 2016
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Original place of publication: science 179, 250-258: questions addressed in original study: (list the 2 5 most important questions addressed in the original study) What are the consequences of misjudging a person"s abnormality and diagnosing them: findings of original study: (list the 2 5 most important findings of the original study) All behavior can be seen to lie on a continuum with normal, effective psychological functioning, at one end, and abnormal, indicating a psychological disorder, at the other. To determine how abnormal a person is, clinicians must focus on many factors for diagnosis: Context of behavior, persistence of behavior, social deviance, subjective distress, psychological handicap, and effect on functioning. To test how well clinicians diagnose sane and insane patients, rosenhan created an experiment where sane people went to clinicians and asked for admittance into mental health institutes.
