Cognitive Personality Assessment

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Rate 48 phrases to learn which of Jung’s eight cognitive processes
you use most skillfully.

48 phrasesFree resultsResearch-based

Before you begin

Set aside what you think your personality type should be

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

  • Indicate how often you skillfully do what each phrase describes.
  • Use dictionary definitions and go with the overall meaning most comfortable to you.
  • If you do not understand a phrase, mark it as “Not Me.”

What you’ll get

A cognitive development profile, a best-match personality code, descriptions of your likely preferred cognitive processes, and suggestions for further exploration.

This questionnaire focuses on cognitive (mental) processes you use well, not surface behavior or what you value. Some processes may be outside your awareness or experience, so understanding the phrases is part of the assessment.

Your responses

How much does each phrase describe you?

Choose one response for every phrase.

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

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

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

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

5Experience a premonition or foresee the distant future.

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

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

8Feel strongly that something is good or bad.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16Enjoy playing with random interconnections and patterns.

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

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

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

20Concisely reference multiple frameworks at once while problem solving.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

31Follow a straight line of reasoning.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

41Merge and feel intimate oneness with other people.

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

43Continually examine if choices harmonize with important beliefs.

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

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

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

47Trust what emerges from brainstorming.

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

Research information

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.

This model tries to tap into development. Knowing your age is important to understanding your responses.
Culture impacts personality. Knowing where you come from will help us refine our understanding.
Minimum 10 letters. This helps us identify duplicate submissions when we analyze data.
Remember that understanding the phrases was part of the assessment. Read responses to typical comments and frequently asked questions about the survey. The FAQ opens in a new window and will not alter or erase this form.
Before submitting: Review your responses to be sure you have rated all 48 phrases. Missing questions may cause some browsers to erase your existing responses.

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