The key research by Rosenhan (1973) reports that hospital staff, including psychiatrists and nurses, spent a remarkably small proportion of their time on the wards interacting with patients, remaining instead inside the glass-segregated nursing station (known as 'the cage').
How did Rosenhan explain this avoidance behaviour of the hospital staff?
276 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Debates, covering Nature/nurture, Freewill/determinism, Reductionism/holism, Individual/situational explanations, Usefulness of research, Ethical considerations, Conducting socially sensitive research, and Psychology as a science. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.