Sensation Seeking Score

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Sensation Seeking Score: A Test Needing Revision Zuckerman defines sensation seeking as a personality trait characterized by the need for various and complex sensations and experiences- this includes taking physical and social risks for the experience (1994). The sensation seeking scale was used on individuals to predict differential response to sensory deprivation (Zuckerman, 1979), it has now changed to include four subscales like: boredom susceptibility, disinhibition, experience seeking, thrill and adventure seeking. When I took the Sensation Seeking Scale Form V, I scored as an Experience Seeker, which meant that I have an interest to pursuit an unconventional lifestyle via unplanned activities/ or hallucinatory drugs. From my answers I …show more content…

For example I would love to learn to fly a plane, but due to the fact that I am completely blind in my right eye, I am not suitable to fly a plane. I find it odd that artists are considered “far out” groups, and I am a very artistic individual. I could see that possibly most artists are liberal, but that does not determine that they are “high risk.” For a preference like this there should be more elaboration on the meaning of an artist. For example a “high risk” kind of artist would be a street artist that spray paints on public property and risks being caught.
Conclusion
This version of the Sensation Seeking Score should be considered to be revised in the future. It may be simple, and it is suggested to takers to find the best preference suited for them, but the test is best taken for people who are older with more conservative values. The test is heteronormative in that it assumes a person is straight, and that it is “high risk” to consider becoming friends with a homosexual. For some preferences the situation needs to be elaborated to make sense on what is risky because a simple artist group is not “far

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