David Rosenhan conducted a classic study in 1973 to investigate the question whether it was plausible to believe that there were sane individuals being held in psychiatric institutions What was his method

A) The method used by Rosenhan was called the 'psychiatric dilemma'.
B) Rosenhan interviewed over 300 psychiatric patients to evaluate their sanity.
C) He arranged for normal people to go to the hospital and complain of hearing voices.
D) He arranged for abnormal or mentally ill people to get admitted to hospital and then see how long it took them to get better and be released.

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Jahari Bates · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : C, Explanation :  Rosenhan arranged for normal people to go to psychiatric hospitals and complain of hearing voices. These people were admitted to the hospitals and acted normally once they were admitted. The study aimed to investigate whether mental health professionals could distinguish between the mentally ill and the sane individuals who pretended to be mentally ill.

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