Sahson
02-06-2011, 01:38 PM
So each MBTI classification has 8 cognitive functions. you mainly have one that is driving the car, whilst one is the co-pilot and the other two are in the backseat. While I keep scoring ISTJ, and INTJ on the MBTI, i could never fathom how I am more emotional then some of the others, and always felt like I was never a true representation of either.
So I took a cognitive function test (http://www.cognitiveprocesses.com/assessment/develop_old.html). There are 8 sections to this, you check the things that describe you, and score each section out of 30.
I took this and got the following. Fi(19) Si(17) Te(16) Ne(15) Se(12) Ti10) Ni(8) Fe(8).
So the dominant is usually you're cognitive function that has been there since childhood, it's the process that plays the leading role is the one that usually develops early in childhood. We tend to engage in this process first, trusting it to solve our problems and help us be successful. Being the most trusted and most used, it usually has an adult, mature quality to it. While we are likely to engage in it rather automatically and effortlessly, we have much more conscious control over it. The energy cost for using it is very low. Much like in the movies, the leading role has a heroic quality as using it can get us out of difficult situations. However, we can sometimes “turn up the volume” on this process and become overbearing and domineering. Then it takes on a negative dominating quality.
The supporting is something you develop later in life, the auxillary, and inferior do not develop in your teens and these last two functions can change more often then the leading and the supporting. Something drastic in your life has to happen for you to change your supporting, or even your leading.
However everyone has the eight cognitive functions, its just some are more developed then others, and the less developed ones, can depict our negative side. So the idea in this is that you can't go from ENFP to ISTJ, because the ENFP's leading function is Ne which is the aspirational(inferior) for an ISTJ. unless something drastic happens...
Dominant
Te - ExTJ
Ti - IxTP
Se - ESxP
Si - ISxJ
Fe - ExFJ
Fi - IxFP
Ne - ENxP
Ni - INxJ
Supporting
The supporting role is how we are helpful to others as well as supportive of ourselves. Once we have developed some facility with our leading role process, we are more likely to feel comfortable engaging in our supporting role process. In its most positive form, this can be quite like a nurturing parent. In its more negative aspect, it can be overprotective and stunting rather than helpful.
Te - IxTJ
Ti - ExTP
Se - ISxP
Si - ESxJ
Fe - IxFJ
Fi - ExFP
Ne - INxP
Ni - ENxJ
Tertiary
The relief role gives us a way to energize and recharge ourselves. It serves as a backup to the supporting role and often works in tandem with it. When we are younger, we might not engage in the process that plays this role very much unless our life circumstances require it or make it hard to use the supporting role process. Usually, in young adulthood we are attracted to activities that draw upon this process. The relief role often is how we express our creativity. It is how we are playful and childlike. In its most negative expression, this is how we become childish. Then it has an unsettling quality, and we can use this process to distract ourselves and others, getting us off target.
Te -ExFP
Ti - IxFJ
Se - ENxJ
Si - INxP
Fe - ExTP
Fi - IxTJ
Ne - ESxJ
Ni - ISxP
Inferior
The aspirational role usually doesn’t develop until around midlife. We often experience it first in its negative aspect of projecting our “shoulds,” fears, and negativities onto others. The qualities of these fears reflect the process that plays this role, and we are more likely to look immature when we engage in the process that plays this role. There is often a fairly high energy cost for using it—even when we acquire the skill to do so. As we learn to trust it and develop it, the aspirational role process provides a bridge to balance in our lives. Often our sense of purpose, inspiration, and ideals have the qualities of the process that plays this role.
Te - IxFP
Ti - ExFJ
Se - INxJ
Si - ENxP
Fe - IxTP
Fi - ExTJ
Ne - ISxJ
Ni - ESxP
The Shadow Processes
Opposing
The opposing role is often how we get stubborn and argumentative—refusing to “play” and join in whatever is going on at the time. It might be easy for us to develop skill in the process that plays this role, but we are likely to be more narrow in our application of this skill, and it will likely take more energy to use it extensively. In its positive aspect, it provides a shadow or depth to our leading role process, backing it up and enabling us to be more persistent in pursuit of our goals.
Te - IxTP
Ti - ExTJ
Se - ISxJ
Si - ESxP
Fe - IxFP
Fi - ExFJ
Ne - INxJ
Ni - ENxP
Cynic
The critical parent role is how we find weak spots and can immobilize and demoralize others. We can also feel this way when others use the process that plays this role. It is often used sporadically and emerges more often under stressful conditions when something important is at risk. When we engage it, we can go on and on. To access its positive side of discovery, we must learn to appreciate and be open to it. Then it has an almost magical quality and can provide a profound sense of wisdom.
Te - ExTP
Ti - IxTJ
Se - ESxJ
Si - ISxP
Fe - ExFP
Fi - IxFJ
Ne - ENxJ
Ni - INxP
Deceiving
The deceiving role fools us into thinking something is important to do or pay attention to. The process that fills this role is often not trusted or seen as worthy of attention, for when we do engage it, we may make mistakes in perception or in decision making. Then we feel double bound—trapped between two bad options. Yet this role can have a positive side as it provides comic relief. Then we can laugh at ourselves. It can be refreshing and join with the relief role as we recharge ourselves through play.
Te - IxFJ
Ti - ExFP
Se - INxP
Si - ENxJ
Fe - IxTJ
Fi - ExTP
Ne - ISxP
Ni - ESxJ
Devilish
The devilish role can be quite negative. Using the process that plays this role, we might become destructive of ourselves or others. Actions (or inactions) taken when we engage in the process that plays this role are often regretted later. Usually, we are unaware of how to use the process that fills this role and feel like it just erupts and imposes itself rather unconsciously. Yet when we are open to the process that plays the devilish role, it becomes transformative. It gives us the impetus to create something new—to make lemonade out of lemons, rather than lament their sourness.
Te - ExFJ
Ti - IxFP
Se - ENxP
Si - INxJ
Fe - ExTJ
Fi - IxTP
Ne - ESxP
Ni - ISxJ
So I took a cognitive function test (http://www.cognitiveprocesses.com/assessment/develop_old.html). There are 8 sections to this, you check the things that describe you, and score each section out of 30.
I took this and got the following. Fi(19) Si(17) Te(16) Ne(15) Se(12) Ti10) Ni(8) Fe(8).
So the dominant is usually you're cognitive function that has been there since childhood, it's the process that plays the leading role is the one that usually develops early in childhood. We tend to engage in this process first, trusting it to solve our problems and help us be successful. Being the most trusted and most used, it usually has an adult, mature quality to it. While we are likely to engage in it rather automatically and effortlessly, we have much more conscious control over it. The energy cost for using it is very low. Much like in the movies, the leading role has a heroic quality as using it can get us out of difficult situations. However, we can sometimes “turn up the volume” on this process and become overbearing and domineering. Then it takes on a negative dominating quality.
The supporting is something you develop later in life, the auxillary, and inferior do not develop in your teens and these last two functions can change more often then the leading and the supporting. Something drastic in your life has to happen for you to change your supporting, or even your leading.
However everyone has the eight cognitive functions, its just some are more developed then others, and the less developed ones, can depict our negative side. So the idea in this is that you can't go from ENFP to ISTJ, because the ENFP's leading function is Ne which is the aspirational(inferior) for an ISTJ. unless something drastic happens...
Dominant
Te - ExTJ
Ti - IxTP
Se - ESxP
Si - ISxJ
Fe - ExFJ
Fi - IxFP
Ne - ENxP
Ni - INxJ
Supporting
The supporting role is how we are helpful to others as well as supportive of ourselves. Once we have developed some facility with our leading role process, we are more likely to feel comfortable engaging in our supporting role process. In its most positive form, this can be quite like a nurturing parent. In its more negative aspect, it can be overprotective and stunting rather than helpful.
Te - IxTJ
Ti - ExTP
Se - ISxP
Si - ESxJ
Fe - IxFJ
Fi - ExFP
Ne - INxP
Ni - ENxJ
Tertiary
The relief role gives us a way to energize and recharge ourselves. It serves as a backup to the supporting role and often works in tandem with it. When we are younger, we might not engage in the process that plays this role very much unless our life circumstances require it or make it hard to use the supporting role process. Usually, in young adulthood we are attracted to activities that draw upon this process. The relief role often is how we express our creativity. It is how we are playful and childlike. In its most negative expression, this is how we become childish. Then it has an unsettling quality, and we can use this process to distract ourselves and others, getting us off target.
Te -ExFP
Ti - IxFJ
Se - ENxJ
Si - INxP
Fe - ExTP
Fi - IxTJ
Ne - ESxJ
Ni - ISxP
Inferior
The aspirational role usually doesn’t develop until around midlife. We often experience it first in its negative aspect of projecting our “shoulds,” fears, and negativities onto others. The qualities of these fears reflect the process that plays this role, and we are more likely to look immature when we engage in the process that plays this role. There is often a fairly high energy cost for using it—even when we acquire the skill to do so. As we learn to trust it and develop it, the aspirational role process provides a bridge to balance in our lives. Often our sense of purpose, inspiration, and ideals have the qualities of the process that plays this role.
Te - IxFP
Ti - ExFJ
Se - INxJ
Si - ENxP
Fe - IxTP
Fi - ExTJ
Ne - ISxJ
Ni - ESxP
The Shadow Processes
Opposing
The opposing role is often how we get stubborn and argumentative—refusing to “play” and join in whatever is going on at the time. It might be easy for us to develop skill in the process that plays this role, but we are likely to be more narrow in our application of this skill, and it will likely take more energy to use it extensively. In its positive aspect, it provides a shadow or depth to our leading role process, backing it up and enabling us to be more persistent in pursuit of our goals.
Te - IxTP
Ti - ExTJ
Se - ISxJ
Si - ESxP
Fe - IxFP
Fi - ExFJ
Ne - INxJ
Ni - ENxP
Cynic
The critical parent role is how we find weak spots and can immobilize and demoralize others. We can also feel this way when others use the process that plays this role. It is often used sporadically and emerges more often under stressful conditions when something important is at risk. When we engage it, we can go on and on. To access its positive side of discovery, we must learn to appreciate and be open to it. Then it has an almost magical quality and can provide a profound sense of wisdom.
Te - ExTP
Ti - IxTJ
Se - ESxJ
Si - ISxP
Fe - ExFP
Fi - IxFJ
Ne - ENxJ
Ni - INxP
Deceiving
The deceiving role fools us into thinking something is important to do or pay attention to. The process that fills this role is often not trusted or seen as worthy of attention, for when we do engage it, we may make mistakes in perception or in decision making. Then we feel double bound—trapped between two bad options. Yet this role can have a positive side as it provides comic relief. Then we can laugh at ourselves. It can be refreshing and join with the relief role as we recharge ourselves through play.
Te - IxFJ
Ti - ExFP
Se - INxP
Si - ENxJ
Fe - IxTJ
Fi - ExTP
Ne - ISxP
Ni - ESxJ
Devilish
The devilish role can be quite negative. Using the process that plays this role, we might become destructive of ourselves or others. Actions (or inactions) taken when we engage in the process that plays this role are often regretted later. Usually, we are unaware of how to use the process that fills this role and feel like it just erupts and imposes itself rather unconsciously. Yet when we are open to the process that plays the devilish role, it becomes transformative. It gives us the impetus to create something new—to make lemonade out of lemons, rather than lament their sourness.
Te - ExFJ
Ti - IxFP
Se - ENxP
Si - INxJ
Fe - ExTJ
Fi - IxTP
Ne - ESxP
Ni - ISxJ