Cognitive Psychology is an exciting concept for me. I want to learn more about child development and cognitive psychology is where its at. Eric Erickson, a psychologist, made a big impact on this subfield of psychology. He developed the stages of development which can be used to assess if a child is progressing along with the rest of his or her peers. However, Erickson’s theory is only meant to be a guideline. For more factual information on whether your child is progressing along developmentally where they should be, visit a psychologist for a cognitive assessment. The reason for this is that within cognitive psychology, psychologists have developed measurable, standardized methods based on real empirical data to measure developmental stages. Cognitive Psychology can be fun. Memory games can be used by cognitive psychologists who seek to aid clients in increasing memory capacity. We as humans are able to learn many things over the course of our lives. It is true that the brain is like a muscle, atrophying when it isn’t used. For example, memory games may be used to strengthen memory capacity, and neglecting intellectual pursuits may lead to atrophy of cognitive abilities. Cognitive Psychology allows us as a human society to help each other learn as much as possible, and in the meantime, achieve a full potential, or at least to find out what our potential is.
01/10/2010
01/02/2010
Great Resource for Personality Test Info
Typology Central
Typology Central is a forum where individuals like ME who are interested in personality tests can share ideas. Their pages are very useful. The users seem to know quite a bit about the subjects in detail. What I like the most is that when searching for information in google about personality types their site came up a lot.
Typology Central requires that users join- they must create an account, its not a big deal and doesn't take long- in order to view user profiles or to post themselves. But the forums' pages are accessible to anyone, other than the user accounts.
I couldn't believe how much fun these people have talking about personality tests. Maybe they are all geeks and nerds, but if they are, I am too. I could spend a lot of time studying about this stuff.
12/25/2009
Personality Tests Inventory: Cognitive Functions Se and Si
So I was looking around for some really good real life examples of the cognitive functions. Most online resources have great descriptions/definitions of the types, but I really struggled to find real life examples.
For me, real life examples really help in my journey of understanding. I enjoy the theoretical, more than hands on application even, but now that I have pretty much exhausted the supply of theory on this subject I've decided I would take a look at better explanations- examples that are applicable to everyday life, ones I can relate to my own life.
Cuz I obviously don't fully get the cognitive functions; I have yet to really recognize myself using them everyday.
K so...I found one real life example about personality tests and cognitive functions. The blog owner's post is actually only about 2 of the 8 cognitive functions. I really wish she would write more articles like that. I have found very short examples on other sites throughout the web, but none really are long enough to give me a good, in depth look at the functions.
The author posted a chart in the post, which can be seen first after just a few sentences of text. The chart explains the two functions, introverted and extroverted sensing, very well. She took her information from online sources and assimilated it into an easily readable, understandable format.
12/20/2009
More about Thought Processes according to your Personality Tests' results
You may not even be aware that a personality test can tell you a little about your thought processes. I mean, not general stuff, like oh yeah duh, if I know your personality type then I get how you see the world, thus how you think. No. Talking more specifics than that; specifics on how a person views the world.
So get this. There are 8 cognitive processes total, according to personality theory. And of course they are not meant to include all thought processes ever possible. They are to be used as a framework in understanding personality.
Carl Jung originally theorized that we are all born with a way of seeing the world that shapes our cognitive processes. This is our "dominant process". Then in childhood/adolescence we develop our auxiliary process, then later our tertiary, and in mid-adulthood we are still developing our inferior process.
Why is this so interesting? Well its not, really, until you consider what those 8 cognitive processes are.
The 8 cognitive processes can be divided into 4 personality traits: Thinking, Feeling, Sensing, and iNtuition. Intuition is represented with a capital N because I is needed for introversion in the overall temperament sorter profile.
According to this theory, we all have one of each of the four traits. And those 4 traits are expanded into 8 cognitive processes by Introversion and Extroversion: Introverted Thinking, Extroverted Thinking; and so on. For example, I (and everyone else) have either Introverted or Extroverted Thinking, either Introverted or Extroverted Feeling, Introverted or Extroverted Sensing, and Introverted or Extroverted iNtuition. The differences come (among the 16 different personality type profiles) from the order of the development of these processes.
Isn't it interesting that both Carl Jung and the Myers-Briggs team both found cognitive processes to be relevant enough to personality theory to include entire books about them? And their Personality Tests are the most well-known out there. Even those later created usually draw from the original two. But still we don't study cognitive processes when briefing over Myers-Briggs Temperament Sorter in Psych 101.
Cognitive Functions: Why they rock
Cognitive Functions/Processes are the cream of the crop, the cherry on top! when it comes to personality tests. To me at least.
I must explain. Cognitive functions add a buttload to personality theory. The entire concept is instrumental in understanding how the human mind develops a personality. And yes, it is just theory, but an awful useful theory.
Cognitive function theory was first posited by Carl Jung. After that, its my understanding that next the Myers-Briggs team developed the theory further, and since then several other devoted personality type theorists have jumped on the bandwagon.
Cognitive Functions theory makes Personality Tests so much more useful. I can hardly believe how archaic my understanding of personality theory was prior to learning about the cognitive functions.
The functions give a more in depth look at what is going on inside us. I'm telling you...they are useful as heck.
