David Rosenhan and His Fellow Researchers Were Admitted as Patients

question 7

Multiple Choice

David Rosenhan and his fellow researchers were admitted as patients into various hospitals after they falsely complained of auditory hallucinations.After hospital clinicians analyzed these patients' quite normal life histories

• A) the patients were typically discharged from the hospital in less than a day after admission.
• B) the clinicians refused to prescribe any medications for these patients.
• C) the patients actually began to experience auditory hallucinations.
• D) the clinicians identified patient life history dynamics contributing to a psychological disorder.

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