page_title: Jungian cognitive functions
section_title: Isabel Myers
hierarchical_section_title: Jungian cognitive functions / Different models / Isabel Myers
caption_attribution_description: English: A diagram depicting the cognitive functions of each Myers-Briggs personality type. A type's background color represents its dominant function, and its text color represents its auxiliary function.
context_page_description: Cognitive functions, also referred to as psychological functions, as described by Carl Jung in his book Psychological Types, are particular mental processes within a person's psyche that are present regardless of common circumstance. This was a concept that served as one of the conceptual foundations for his theory on personality type. In his book, he noted four main psychological functions: thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition. He introduced them with having either an internally focused or externally focused tendency which he called "attitudes".
context_section_description: Isabel Myers created the original type table.  In her table, diametrically opposite personality types (that is, those with no traits in common among the dichotomies) are separated by one block along diagonals.
caption: A diagram of the cognitive functions of each Myers-Briggs type. A type's background color represents its Dominant function, and its text color represents its Auxiliary function.
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