A Comprehensive Guide to the Cognitive Functions
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A Comprehensive Guide to the Cognitive Functions

What are the cognitive functions? Chance are if you’ve been reading about personality type for long you’ve heard the term here and there. It can feel annoying to see people throw around terms like Fi, Si, Te, or Ne and have no idea what they’re talking about. “Speak English!” I hear some people say when…

The INTP Cognitive Function Stack
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The INTP Cognitive Function Stack

Have you ever heard the term “cognitive function” and wondered what it meant? When it comes to personality type, each of us have a “cognitive function stack.” This stack tells us which mental processes we prioritize, which we prefer, and which come more naturally to us (or least naturally). Your Myers-Briggs® personality type ultimately gives…

Extroverted Cognitive Functions Versus Introverted Cognitive Functions
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Extroverted Cognitive Functions Versus Introverted Cognitive Functions

Let’s get real nerdy. Cognitive function level nerdy. When first describing type, Carl Jung coined the terms Objective and Subjective to distinguish between extroversion and introversion. “Introverted and extroverted types. When we consider the course of human life, we see how the fate of one individual is determined more by the objects of his interest,…

The Cognitive Functions – What Are They?
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The Cognitive Functions – What Are They?

When it comes to your Myers-Briggs® personality type, we tend to explain the terms in a very clinical, cold sense. Today I wanted to use more imagery to describe the cognitive functions. I wanted to describe them at their best, in a way that (hopefully) will create a picture in people’s minds of what they…