Disjunction was favored over connection, turbulence over smoothness, strangeness over familiarity.
In my school, there was little to no staff mobility; many teachers had been there for years and were not going to move any time soon, which led to some apathy or over familiarity with the curriculum.
A former naval officer on the expedition, writing in his diary, expressed shock that Shackleton "errs on the side of over familiarity and does not rebuke members who occasionally address him with a lack of respect".
Our over familiarity with the story can cause us miss it, but Mary did something astonishing.
The report defines it as follows: "People high on openness are more artistic, creative and intellectually curious, and tend to prefer novelty and variety over familiarity and sameness".
By taking advantage of the monkey's spontaneous preference for novelty over familiarity, the DNMS task is not only quick to train but reduces the likelihood that deficits arise because the nonmatching rule itself has been lost.
