Cognitive Personality Evaluation

Instructions

The Cognitive Perspectives Personality Evaluation is designed to calculate your four letter personality type based upon your responses to a comprehensive set of questions. Answer the following questions as accurately as possible! When you are finished, you will receive a comprehensive profile based upon your answers that includes both your four letter type and your estimated use of each of the eight cognitive functions. The test has two sections:

  1. Agree/Disagree Section
  2. Multiple Choice Section

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Agree/Disagree Section:

Using the scale below each statement, rate how well each statement describes you.

1. I take good care of myself and am good at caring for my own needs.

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2. I tend to be more interested in concrete data rather than hypothetical possibilities.

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3. In conversation, I tend to bounce around from topic to topic not focusing on any single idea for very long.

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4. I tend to compare the details in front of me with my past experiences.

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5. I consider myself a planner and prefer to have a plan in mind before going into a situation.

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6. I often feel responsible for the emotions of people around me.

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7. When asked a complex question, I prefer to go off and take my time to formulate the perfect answer rather than "thinking it through out loud" on the spot.

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8. I tend to improvise rather than plan ahead.

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9. I frequently experience a strong sense of premonition or foreshadowing in my life. I often feel as though I have strange way of knowing what is going to happen next in my life.

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10. I constantly find myself seeking out physically stimulating activities and live for the "here and now".

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11. I often easily empathize with the people around me, even when they are random strangers.

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12. I often enjoy being the center of attention. I like having a group gathered around me listening to whatever I am talking about.

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13. I am very in-tune with my body's physical needs and are very conscious of inner bodily sensations such as hunger, pain, numbness, muscle tension, or thirst.

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14. I tend to focus on only taking in the information that is relevant to my business, relationships or other goals.

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15. Sometimes I find myself spending too much time reflecting and don't move into action quickly enough.

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16. I have a great appreciation for aesthetics in art, film, photography, or forms of design.

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17. It doesn't take much time before a cluttered/disorganized home or work environment starts to bother me.

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18. Effectiveness and efficency are generally more important to me than accuracy.

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19. Being in a crowded room often makes me feel uneasy or overwhelmed.

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20. I crusade for what I feel is right even if that causes friction in my relaionships or in the external world.

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21. My thoughts are constantly shifting from one idea to another.

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22. I often compare ideas, attitudes, and behaviors against my closely held values and beliefs.

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23. Analyzing how a process or system works is more interesting to me than applying the process to achieve a goal or result.

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24. I often start many projects but only actually finish a few of them.

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25. I like hanging out with friends one-on-one rather than in a group setting.

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26. I often get energy from being around other people and I don't like to spend much time alone.

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27. I am very in touch with the details of the external environment around me and notice many of the small, aesthetic details that other people don't pick up on.

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28. I often notice the missing parts of patterns.

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29. I look for group norms and judge my own behavior and the behavior of others accordingly.

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30. I tend to be focused on output and results rather than the individual steps taken to reach the end result.

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31. I am comfortable with meeting new people.

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32. Being on time is very important to me and I dislike being late.

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33. I often like to take my time to formulate the perfect sentence and seek precision with my words.

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34. I get insights and gut feelings that seem to come out of thin air but are often accurate and useful.

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35. I often compare the details of the present to the details of the past.

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36. I like flexibility and like to "go with the flow" over having a planned schedule.

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37. I am often careful to act in a "socially appropriate" way.

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38. I set or identify objective measures to evaluate performance towards a goal.

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39. Naturally, I spend more time developing my own internal values and ethics than I spend seeking to understand the values of others.

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40. I tend to prefer the use of highly personalized methods over standardized approaches such as the "scientific method".

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41. My room or work space may appear a bit messy or chaotic to others but it doesn't really bother me.

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42. Maintaining tradition is very important to me.

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43. I have to experience something in order to believe it. Just knowing isn't enough.

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44. I like to finish one project before starting another.

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45. By just looking at a physical object I can sense its taste, texture, color, sound, and smell.

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46. I am especially drawn to symbolism and metaphors.

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Multiple Choice Section:

After reading each question carefully, select the answer that best describes you.

47. At a party or social gathering you like to be:


48. When working on a project you prefer to focus on:


49. When making a difficult decision you naturally tend to consider:


50. You prefer to:


51. Which of the follow activities do you tend to enjoy the most?


52. How do you tend to interpret the world?


53. You consider yourself to be:


54. When it comes to deadlines you tend to:


55. You tend to focus most on:


56. You are best described as being:


57. Naturally, you tend to focus more on the:


58. At times, you can be seen as:


59. You often seek:


60. You tend to think:


61. You are often considered to be a(n) _____________ and _____________ person:


62. You are most stressed out by:


Finally, if you have taken a personality test in the past, what type did you score? If this is your first time taking a personality test or you do not remember what you scored in the past, leave this blank