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.
Answer: A
Rationale: After their admission, these so-called patients behaved normally, complaining of no psychiatric symptoms whatsoever. Nonetheless, they remained hospitalized for an average of 19 days until being released as "in remission." Apparently, the initial diagnosis led the hospital staff to misinterpret even normal behavior as symptoms of an illness.
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