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Ciccarelli: Psychology_5 (5th Edition)

5th Edition

ISBN:9780134477961

Author:Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White

Publisher:Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White

Chapter1: The Science Of Psychology

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How do people high in sensation seeking differ
from people low in sensation seeking in terms of
personality and cognitive functioning?

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Introduction:

Sensation-seeking refers to the desire to explore out novel and unique sensory experiences, emotions, and interactions. The characteristic trait explains individuals who seek novel, intricate, and intensified sensory experiences, who enjoy interaction for one's own self, and who are willing to take chances to obtain those life experiences.

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Differences in personality

Sensation seekers have been extroverted personality and demonstrated social inclinations affiliated with psychoticism, especially those who score highly on disinhibition.
Openness to experience, extraversion, and self-awareness was as well significant in university adolescents and young people who managed to score steeply in excitement-seeking.
High excitement seekers are susceptible to being egoistical extraverted, suggesting that they are just worried about the other individuals as long as these people can start serving as stimuli.
Mr. Z speculated that individuals who scored low on sensation seeking could suffer from neurotic conditions such as social anxiety and start engaging in obsession and compulsion behaviors.
High sensation seekers don't rely on other people for nourishment.
High thrill-seeking: have a greater standard of emotional intensity and sincerity, are quite self-sufficient, may not disguise their emotions, are compassionate, adventurous, conform to societal expectations, and so on, i.e., totally as the opposite of low sensation-seeking people.