In a Famous Study Discussed in Your Textbook, Eight Normal

question 51

Multiple Choice

In a famous study discussed in your textbook, eight normal individuals were committed to a psychiatric hospital after claiming that they were experiencing hallucinations. Which of the following happened next?

• A) The hospital staff continued to view them as abnormal, despite the fact that they had no symptoms.
• B) The hospital staff realized that they had been faking their original symptoms.
• C) Being in the psychiatric hospital caused them to develop real psychological symptoms after several days.
• D) They quickly quit the study because the conditions in the psychiatric hospital were so poor.

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