My Cheatsheet
Information Elements
Irrational elements (because they perceive, not reason):
Se - extroverted sensing: Force (F)
- Accumulation of external involvements
- Force: strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement. In physics, understood as an influence tending to change the motion of a body or produce motion or stress in a stationary body.
Si - introverted sensing: Senses (S)
- Integration of external involvements
- Senses: faculties by which the body perceives external stimuli.
Ne - extroverted intuition: Ideas (I)
- Accumulation of internal abstractions
- Ideas: thoughts as to possible courses of action or outcomes.
Ni - introverted intuition: Telos (T)
- Integration of internal abstractions
- Telos: ancient Greek term for an end, fulfillment, completion, aim or goal. Ethymologic source for the word ‘teleology’, the explanation of phenomena in terms of the purpose they serve rather than of cause by which they arise.
Rational elements (because they reason, not perceive):
Te - extroverted thinking: Pragmatism (P)
- Accumulation of external abstractions
- Pragmatism: an approach that evaluates theories or beliefs in terms of the success of their practical application.
Ti - introverted thinking: Laws (L)
- Integration of external abstractions
- Laws: the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
Fe - extroverted feeling: Emotions (E)
- Accumulation of internal involvements
- Emotions: strong feelings deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.
Fi - introverted feeling: Relations ®
- Integration of internal involvements
- Relations: the ways in which two or more people or things are connected; a thing’s effect on or relevance to another. Also the way in which two or more people or groups feel about and behave towards each other.
Each of the eight information elements fit into and fill one of the eight cognitive functions that make up a person’s personality type. The different assortments result in the 16 different types.
Cognitive Functions
1. Leading - most capable (4D), valued, public, and stubborn. Automatic, confident, and comfortable first approach that sets and programs the base objectives of the personality. Also called Base, Dominant, or sometimes Program function
2. Creative - highly capable (3D), valued, public, and flexible. Complements the leading function’s set program and takes it into actions, brings it into the world. Also called Auxiliary function.
3. Role - less capable (2D), unvalued, public, and flexible. Conscious adaptation to respond to outside expectations. Sometimes called Reluctant function.
4. Vulnerable - least capable (1D), unvalued, public, and stubborn. Source of insecurity, least resistance to external pressure, and inflexible lack of comprehension of its given information element. Sometimes called Exposed function or Path/Point of Least Resistance (PoLR).
5. Suggestive - least capable(1D), valued, private, and flexible. Search for intimate reassurance and/or influence of others, appreciation and enthralling of the presence of the element in them, feels calmed by it. Also called Accepting or Seeking function.
6. Mobilizing - less capable (2D), valued, private, and stubborn. Highly personal need for being independently capable in this element, but is overconfident. Consistently clumsy in its effectiveness or overcompensating in its expression. Its usage energizes the person. Also called Activating function or Hidden Agenda.
7. Observing - highly capable(3D), unvalued, private, and stubborn. Non-participation in the usage of its given element outside of scrutizing from the sidelines and sometimes consistently critizicing or questioning its validity. Traditionally called Ignoring function.
8. Demonstrative - most capable(4D), unvalued, private, and flexible. Unconscious and persistent leading utilization of the element, even when it would rather not be used. Willingly let go of when asked of by overwhelmed people due to its unvalued and flexible nature, yet it still assists in the achieving of the type’s goals.
Each of the eight functions fit into one of four Blocks within the model, creating Rings of information metabolism:
Blocks
Public and conscious blockings: the Mental Ring
Ego Block: valued and “strong” functions
Super-Ego Block: unvalued and “weak” functions
Private and unconscious blockings: the Vital Ring
Super-Id Block: valued but “weak” functions
Id Block: unvalued but “strong” functions
Inert functions: stubborn, intransigent, bold, assertive, and energetic functions
Contact functions: flexible, collaborative, subtle, and reluctant functions
The “strength” or “weakness” of a given function is explained through the qualitative parameters with which they are able to process information to elaborate conclusions and internalize lessons. Each set of which are called Dimensionality of a function:
Dimensionality
Each function processes information and grows by taking into account the parameters of:
1-Dimensional (1D): experience. Referred to as least capable, “weakest”.
2-Dimensional (2D): norms and experience. Referred to as less capable, “weak”.
3-Dimensional (3D): situational, norms, and experience. Referred to as highly capable, “strong”.
4-Dimensional (4D): time, situational, norms, and experience. Referred to as most capable, “strongest.
Commonalities can be discerned between types depending on strengths and values, called small groups or quaternions:
Small Groups
Quadras: according to valued elements
- Alpha: value Ti, Fe, Si, Ne - Acceptance and Togetherness
- Beta: value Ti, Fe, Se, Ni - Calling and Order
- Gamma: value Te, Fi, Se, Ni - Aptitude and Independence
- Delta: value Te, Fi, Si, Ne - Growth and Hope
Clubs: according to dominant primary information
- Researchers: intuitive and logical (NT)
- Socials: sensing and ethical (SF)
- Pragmatists: sensing and logical (ST)
- Humanitarians: intuitive and ethical (NF)
Temperaments: according to primary extroversion (E or I) and rationality (P or J)
- Flexible-maneuvering: extroverted and perceiving (EP)
- Linear-assertive: extroverted and rational (EJ)
- Receptive-adaptive: introverted and perceiving (IP)
- Balanced-stable: introverted and rational (IJ)
Communication styles: according to primary extroversion (E or I) and rational preferrence (F or T)
- Bussinesslike: extroverted and logical (ET)
- Passionate: extroverted and ethical (EF)
- Cold-blooded: introverted and logical (IT)
- Sincere/Soulful: introverted and ethical (IF)
I will make separate in-depth entries for each of the points in every section, the 16 Socionics types and more.
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