Using the results below, answer the following questions: Sensation Seeking Scale - Form V: (SSS-V) Thrill and
Question:
Using the results below, answer the following questions:
Sensation Seeking Scale - Form V: (SSS-V)
Thrill and Adventure Seeking (TAS):0
Experience Seeking (ES):3
Disinhibition (Dis):0
Boredom Susceptibility (BS):0
Overall Sensation Seeking Average:3
Interpreting the scores:The factors and overall average are summed. The Overall Sensation Seeking average is the sum of all four factors. Each factor score ranges from 0 (low sensation seeking) to 3 (high sensation seeking). Overall average score ranges from 0 (low sensation seeking) to 36 (high sensation seeking).
1) Using the four dimensions, interpret your sensation-seeking results and explain whether you believe this scale provides an accurate description of your personality.
2) How could you improve the scale to make it more reliable or valid? Stating the scale should include more questions is not a good response. Think about how the questions are written and whether the questions are truly measuring sensation seeking.
3) Using your Sensation Seeking scores, pick two of the three remaining theories on biological personality to describe what mechanisms may be at play that are responsible or your results: BIS/BAS, Cloninger's Tridimensional Model, and Frontal Asymmetry.
Concepts of Database Management
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Authors: Philip J. Pratt, Mary Z. Last