User:S.emp/Week 12, tutoral 5

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=Week 12, tutorial 5=

Today’s tutorial was short and sweet. The tutorial consisted of James answering any last questions about our text-book chapter, we did a quick quiz and the highlight of the class was the sensation seeking scale. I found this really fun and when everyone figured out how the marking system worked (it was a little confusing), it created a really good discussion point for the class.

Questions raised:
 * Is age a factor in sensation seeking?
 * Does a person become less sensation seeking with age?
 * Does a person’s gender make a difference?

In my opinion I think that age and personal experience does play a factor in sensation seeking. For example, when I was younger I was boogie boarding and I got the rope that was connecting my wrist to the board rapped around my neck, for a long time I was cautious in the water and would not have dreamed of doing sensation seeking things in the water such as scuba diving. However, now I really enjoy the water and one thing I cannot wait to do is scuba diving.

I also believe that a person is more likely to become less sensation seeking with age. A really good point that was made in class is that if you have children for example, you become more cautious and therefore, less sensation seeking.

I am not really sure if gender makes a difference. According to Reeve (2009) males are a little bit more sensation seeking than females. I would be interested to read more into the topic to gain more insight.

Does anyone have any opinions in regards to the questions that my tutorial class raised?

In regards to the sensation seeking scale when everyone had completed it, we were asked to put our scores on the board. There were four categories: boredom susceptibility, disinhibition, experience seeking and thrill and adventure seeking. Below is my classes scores in regards to the scale. Overall, I got 29 out of 40 in regards to sensation seeking. As we did not discuss everyone’s overall score in class, I would be interested to know what other people’s overall scores are.

Below are 4 diagrams that i created illistrating the classes scores in regards to boredom susceptibility, disinhibition, experience seeking and thrill and adventure seeking.



Graph illistrating my tutorial's results for boredom susceptibility.



Graph illistrating my tutorial's results for disinhibition.



Graph illistrating my tutorial results for experience seeking.



Graph illistrating my tutorial results for trill and adventure seeking.