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Psychology Common Sense

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The ethical implications of psychological research in relation to the experiments outlined within my study materials showed that Common sense is mainly when we follow our beliefs or skills which are often taught and shared by people but not acquired through specialist education. According to Refinetti (1992), the concept is too broad and any meaningful statement should refer not to the whole concept but to some component of it. Another reason why psychology and common sense are different is that the outcome of psychological tests carried out over the years have produced different results to what had been predicted by just using only 'common sense' alone, An example of this was seen in a scientific test carried out by Stanley Milgram (1974),

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