Category: The Cognition Process (Page 1 of 2)

What is Personality?? New Intro Video

February 24, 2018 / Calise Sellers

Hi there! After over a year of anticipation, we finally have a new intro video! Huzzah! If you’re new here, this should help you know what aLBoP is all about and what makes us different than other personality systems and sites. And if you already know and love aLBoP, we hope you’ll share this video with your friends!

Hoping to do the entire Super Simple Series in this whiteboard format eventually, so subscribe to the aLBoP YouTube channel so you see when we post more! Oh, and because I know there will be confusion (which makes sense as I am the stick figure maven), but while I (Calise) am doing the voiceover for this video, it’s Justin doing the drawing.

Much love, as always! <3

Calise and Justin

Click to read the epic conclusion of Super Simple Volume 1, and see how the cognition process gets assembled

Cognition – The Super Simple Series! | Part 5: Assembling the Cognition Process

October 1, 2016 / Calise Sellers

Hello again! 🙂 Welcome back for the pivotal climax to understanding the cognition process! Now we can finally put together all the pieces we’ve accumulated over the course of the past four posts (1, 2, 3, 4). We’re going to complete the cognition processes! :O Let’s do it!

And as I always say, *don’t* start here! You’re going to be so ridiculously confused if you do! Are you one of those people that flips to the end of the book?! Well, you can’t do that with this! 😛

Cognition – The Super Simple Series! | Part 4: Function-Combinations

August 31, 2016 / Calise Sellers

Hey! Welcome back! How was your between-posts intermission? Did you get everything you need? Hydration? Nourishment? Bladder relief? Well then, let’s move on. 🙂

Oh and of course, if you haven’t read Parts 1, 2 and 3 yet, then I love you but you really shouldn’t be here yet. Go read those first and then come back. Don’t worry, I’m patient. 😉

Alrighty, I’m really excited for this part too because there’s a lot about why Functions function the way that they do that I really haven’t gotten the opportunity to explain to the whole class, and they are really pretty frickn’ awesome!
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Cognition – The Super Simple Series! | Part 3: Cognition Steps and the Anatomy of the Cognition Process

May 31, 2016 / Calise Sellers

Yay! We’ve made it to what might be my favorite part of all cognition: the anatomy of the cognition process itself! Well, my favorite until we get into what makes every cognition special, and the inner hidden sides of ourselves and… okay I have a lot of favorite parts of cognition. But this post really centers on the core of it all: demonstrating that the paths our minds take make sense, how no thought just appears out of thin air, and how perfectly and elegantly balanced each and every type of thought process is, no matter how diverse. It gives me happy tingles! 😀

I’ve explained the ins and outs of cognition order in a much more complicated way in the past, but today I really want to break it down into simple reasons *why* cognition does what it does. Because the mind doesn’t do anything without a reason.

Cognition – The Super Simple Series! | Part 2: The Four Functions

May 12, 2016 / Calise Sellers

Hello again! Welcome back to Cognition – The Super Simple Series! If you missed Part 1: Cognition and the Four Types of Information, go check it out now. 🙂 Otherwise you’re going to be super lost instead and no one likes that!

I’m very excited for this post as there is sooo much confusion and stereotyping about what functions really are. In this post we’re looking at just how simple and straightforward cognitive functions are, and yet how they’re complex in application and, when understood correctly, should help us understand our complexity as humans more, not limit us into boxes. But I’m getting ahead of myself, as usual. 😉

If we define “Cognition,” as we did in Part 1, as the action of your mind acquiring and processing information, “Functions” are the tools our minds use to acquire and process that information.

Cognition – The Super Simple Series! | Part 1: Cognition and the Four Types of Information

September 8, 2015 / Calise Sellers

Hi! If this is your first time visiting A Little Bit of Personality (aLBoP as we like to call it in endearing tones), welcome!! I’m Calise and I’m *sooo* super excited to share this introductory, condensed, no-frills version of how people think and how to use that information to understand yourself and everyone around you!

The purpose of this series is to explain as crash-course-ly as possible the basic building blocks that form the 16 types of cognition. No prior understanding of cognition, psychology or personality types required (though a basic understanding of people, decent reading comprehension and a certain level of human decency are all requested). There will of course be many pictures. 😀

What If I’m Not the Type I Thought I Was?

July 9, 2015 / Calise Sellers

For over a year I’ve had an impending fear. It lurks in the back of my mind, nagging at me whenever I go to type anyone, real or fictional, whenever My INFJ and I have worked on nailing down just which facial patterns follow human cognition, and it pulls on me whenever I get excited about just how uncannily well Facial Typing works and how the facial similarities between people of the same cognitive type just can’t be unseen! It seems silly, that the reason I’m scared is because Facial Typing works so well; shouldn’t I be more scared if it *didn’t* work? So why does fear haunt my Facial Typing days?

Because I know that in mere months (if schedule goes according to plan, which I’ve totally stopped counting on), I’ll be ready to release a series of posts full of scientific, photographic evidence that *so many people* aren’t the type they think they are. And then I’m readying myself for the pitchforks and torches, because I know they’re coming for me.

And you know what? It’s understandable (to a point) that people get so up-in-arms when I tell them they’re not the type they thought they were. It makes sense that when we have to correct people about their type, or what defines types in general, that they often react as negatively as if we’d corrected them on their religion, politics, sexuality or gender. Continue reading

They’re Here: Personalized Typing Packages and COGs!!!

May 26, 2015 / Calise Sellers

They’re here!!!! Yay!!!!

The new and improved return of Personalized Typings and introducing Cognitive Orientation Guidebooks (COGs)!!!

What are COGs?
Cognitive Orientation Guidebooks or COGs, are aLBoP’s definitive guides to the 16 cognitive types.
Each one includes:

E vs. I
P vs. J
First and Last letter combinations
N vs. S
F vs. T
Middle Letter combinations
Each type’s unique Cognition Steps
Type Specializations
Type Angsts (including all *8* that haven’t been released yet!!)
Paradoxitype

And averages 10,000 words each! That’s just under 160,000 words total :O!

Q&A Quickie: Behavioral vs. Cognitive Psychology

October 24, 2014 / Calise Sellers

Another very frequently asked question, today on Q&A Quickies we look at the difference between behaviors and cognition in psychology and examine the bird on my shirt.

We’re loving your questions and I’ve been hard at work on Group Dynamics: The Avengers! (I have to say, the video is looking pretty sweeet :D) Have a lovely weekend everyone!!

Type Specializations: What Makes My Type Special?

February 12, 2014 / Calise Sellers

There’s an age-old outlook, put blatantly by Syndrome of The Incredibles in his Moriarty Fear, that if everyone is special, then *no one* will be. To this longstanding catch-22, I offer the following rebuttal: What if everyone is special in a way that is both utterly unique and utterly essential?

What if, like colors, genders or flavors, Personality Types create a beautiful cornucopia of complexity and balance, where each member contributes to the whole, an equal and necessary component, without which there would be a gaping hole? And what if becoming special is simply a matter of owning who you are and choosing to pursue the very thing *you* love most?

These are Type Specializations.

This topic is one of my very favorite things about personality typing because it’s so wrapped up in what every type *is* and not only what every type specializes in, but what *drives* every type. It’s easy to focus on cursory traits that may or may not come with a certain type – yes, ISTJs are usually fond of rules and yes, ENTPs often like taking risks; yes, INFPs spend a lot of time exploring inside their own heads and yes, ESFJs can often be found being great hosts and hostesses – but why? What is that common thread that laces itself through a personality type? What means the world to *your* personality?

Type Specializations are made up of two components, Scope and Objective. Continue reading