Se, perceives and processes experiences via sensation in the moment, it revels in stimulation and has expert awareness of its physical surroundings and quick responses to changes in their physical environment. Si, perceives and processes experiences via internal sensation accessed through memory, it is expert at pattern recognition through it’s own past experiences and organises its view of the world based on these. Ne perceives and processes experiences via outer exploration in the real world, exploring and experimenting with ideas in real time, it is expert at instinctive adaptation in the moment. Ni, perceives and processes experiences via inner exploration of ideas and possibilities through imagination, it is expert at abstracting and pattern recognition and is able to see many perspectives simultaneously. I’ll give a brief description of each before we get back to how they are ordered inside a personality type. A Brief Description Of The 8 Different Functions
The Intuitive and Sensing Functions are Perceiving Functions and the Thinking and Feeling Functions are Judging Functions, where these appear in your Function stack determines whether you are an Intro/ Extrovert and whether you are a Perceiver or a Judger. As you can see each Function comes in an Introverted and an Extroverted version, this is called a Functions Attitude. The order of the Functions is what determines your type, this is called your Function stack. You have four in your Ego or Conscious and the other four in your Shadow or Unconscious (you have two other parts of the mind called the Subconscious and the Superego but I wont be going into those much in this introduction.) There are eight different Cognitive Functions according to the MBTI, In that most of you have identified as INFJ personality type and are familiar with the dichotomies of introversion vs extroversion, etc and the list of typical personality traits of the INFJ as well as some understanding of other types. As an introduction to Cognitive Functions, I am assuming that most of the audience here has a basic understanding of the MBTI. However, I will use a few, particularly the INFJ personality type, to illustrate how this system works. I won’t overload you with a breakdown of all the sixteen types. In this Introduction to Cognitive Functions, my aim is to give you a basic understanding of the eight Functions, how they are ordered inside a personality type and how they manifest in the behavioural traits. This is a guest post written by Cat Sawyer – I consider her one of the foremost experts in cognitive functions, as labeled by me.
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