Cognitive Processes Assessment

The CPA is based on the ideas of Dr. Carl Jung. It is statistically validated on 130,000 persons since deployed in 2006. (You can read the paper when you get your results.) Dario Nardi, PhD created this assessment to help people profile their development and use of 8 cognitive processes (aka functions) as described by Jung.

Before you begin...

Thank you for helping us with our research. If you are familiar with Jungian psychology, the Myers-Briggs work, cognitive science or models of development, please set aside any ideas you may have.

Instructions: Please read carefully each of the 48 phrases below. For each phrase:

  • Indicate how often you do skillfully what the phrase describes.
  • Use dictionary definitions and go with the overall meaning most comfortable to you.
  • If you don't understand a phrase then mark it as "not me."
This is a serious questionnaire to help you discover what cognitive processes you use well, as opposed to surface behavior or what you value. Some cognitive processes may be outside your awareness or experience, so just understanding the various phrases is part the assessment. Some phrases may take time to reflect.

What You'll Get: Based on your responses, you will get a cognitive development profile along with a best-match personality code and descriptions of your likely preferred cognitive processes. You will also receive suggestions for further exploration.



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1. Freely follow your gut instincts and exciting physical impulses as they come up.


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2. Offer various unrelated ideas and see what potential they might suggest.


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3. Determine success by measurement or other objective method such as the time taken.


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4. Feel inclined to be responsible for, and take care of, others' feelings.


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5. Experience a premonition or foresee the distant future.


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6. Notice whether the details in front of you match what you are accustomed to.


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7. Be guided by a definition, logical deduction, or other nugget of reasoning.


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8. Feel strongly that something is good or bad.


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9. Compassionately take on someone else's needs as your own.


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10. Construct an argument to convince someone using evidence clearly in front of you both.


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11. Achieve a metamorphosis, definitive insight, or powerful vision of change.


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12. Compare an experience against a storehouse of familiar experiences to find what's reliable.


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13. Remain in touch with what you want for yourself, what motivates you, and what is good.


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14. Apply leverage to a situation to solve a problem impersonally using minimal effort.


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15. Enjoy the thrill of action and physical experience in the present moment.


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16. Enjoy playing with random interconnections and patterns.


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17. Recognize and usually adhere to shared values, feelings, and social norms to get along.


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18. Conceive of a comprehensive plan to maximize progress toward multiple goals at once.


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19. Freely enjoy doing what you want for your own personal happiness.


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20. Concisely reference multiple frameworks at once while problem solving.


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21. Gain a profound realization from a mystical state or sudden release of emotions.


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22. Follow steps to ensure tasks are predictable and completed correctly.


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23. Engage life's magical moments and meaningful coincidences as they happen.


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24. Quickly move to take advantage of immediate options for action.


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25. Always remain true to what you want for yourself or others.


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26. Analyze and critique what doesn't fit with a well-defined principle.


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27. Review a lot of information over time to confirm what is customary or standard.


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28. Feel attracted to the symbolic, archetypal, or mysterious.


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29. Instantly read visible cues to see just how far you can go.


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30. Keep following tangents and new ideas without limiting yourself to one.


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31. Follow a straight line of reasoning.                                           


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32. Help make people feel comfortable by engaging in hosting and care-taking.


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33. Lay out methods for others to complete tasks in time- and resource-efficient ways.


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34. Readily communicate personally to all members of a group to feel unity.


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35. Fine-tune a definition or concept to support a theory, perspective or framework.


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36. Evaluate what is worth believing in and most important to who you really are inside.


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37. Weave into the current dynamics of a situation aspects of other, random contexts.


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38. Spur action and pull off results simply by making your presence felt.


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39. Transform yourself by focusing inward on a specific way you foresee you will need to be.


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40. Fulfill the same regular work or activity everyday at a comfortable pace.


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41. Merge and feel intimate oneness with other people.


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42. Stick to making decisions based on impersonal measures such as points earned.


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43. Continually examine if choices harmonize with important beliefs.


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44. Take apart something to figure out the principles on which it works.


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45. Push your mental limits to complete an array of innovative achievements.


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46. Point out discrepancies between how things are and the way they have always been.


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47. Trust what emerges from brainstorming.


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48. Easily get in sync physically with people and things around you.




Your Demographic Data

This assessment and your upcoming results are free of charge. In exchange, we ask that you answer the demographic questions below. Please help us continue to document and improve this assessment.

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Your Myers-Briggs type code, as you best know?

Your name + birth year or other memorable identifier: Minimum 10 letters. This helps us identify duplicate submissions when we analyze data.

The forum, person or website that brought you here:

Your comments (optional):

Remember that as stated in the directions, understanding the phrases was part of the assessment. Read responses to typical comments and frequently asked questions about the survey. (Clicking on the FAQ hyperlink opens a new window and will not alter or erase the contents of this window.)


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