Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:13:48 GMT 2022-06-22T09:13:48Z <strong style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">Cognitive functions</strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">, also referred to as&nbsp;</span><strong style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">psychological functions</strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">, as described by&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: sans-serif;" title="Carl Jung" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung">Carl Jung</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">&nbsp;in his book&nbsp;</span><em style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Psychological Types" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Types">Psychological Types</a></em><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">, are particular mental processes within a person's psyche that are present regardless of common circumstance.</span><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJung1971chpt._11_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"></sup><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">&nbsp;This was a concept that served as one of the conceptual foundations for his theory on&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: sans-serif;" title="Personality type" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_type">personality type</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">. In his book, he noted four main psychological functions:&nbsp;</span><em style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">thinking</em><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">,&nbsp;</span><em style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">feeling</em><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">,&nbsp;</span><em style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">sensation</em><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">, and&nbsp;</span><em style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">intuition</em><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">. He introduced them with having either an internally focused (</span><em style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Extraversion and introversion" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion#Introversion">introverted</a></em><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">) or externally focused (</span><em style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Extraversion and introversion" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion#Extraversion">extraverted</a></em><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">) tendency which he called "attitudes".<br /><br />But current cognitive sciences rather tend to speak about cognitive processes: these include problem solving, ...<br /><br /></span> Info