[Jungian Cognitive Functions] M and Ms cogntive function exercises

[Lord Lavender]

In a fit of curiosity I googled cognitive function tests and this was the only resource that popped up aside from the standard tests. I thought it would be intresting to see how everyone answers the below. The site in question is here Myers & Briggs • The M&M Exercise (If you don't have m and ms on hand just imagine you have some or use an alternative object similar in size and shape).


(1)Use all of your senses except for taste. Collect factual data about the M&Ms—without eating any of them. Write down your observations.bless

They are hard but soft in the middle and made a clattering noise when I emptied them into the bowl. They were colourful and many different shades of various colours. They were very smooth and shiny and when I put them into my mouth they made a crunching noise.
(2)Write down any past memories of M&Ms.bless

Um.... I remember reading that green M and Ms were lucky so I had a phase when I was obsessed with them and wouldn't eat them as I though the more the better my luck. (Eventfully gave in and ate them )

(3)Write down any new uses for M&Ms that you can think of (besides eating them).

Use them as ammunition for a potato gun, melt them down and sell as two editions (With and without bits), Use them in art work to represent cobble stones in some fantasy decoration, use them as alternative chess pieces, use them as a metaphor for racism and any other isms, demonstrate the difference between capitalism and socialism to people, use them in a mosaic art work piece, put them into a bag and use as a weapon by hitting someone or spilling them to trip your pleasurer, put into a tube and make a rainmaker, murder someone with a peanut allergy by putting into their dinner secretly (I refuse to take any responsibility or liability for anyone who does this), get lots of them and put into a pit for a editable ball pit, check the temperature of a surface by seeing if it melts or not, use as markers in a labyrinth so you don't get lost, distract a angry person or animal, test peoples finger strength by seeing if they can crush them, troll people by putting it in their shoes, use them to displace water so you can get rid of a puddle, get lots of them and stuff them into a bag for a bean bag, put them under chairs at the cinema then people will have melted chocolate all over their pants, use them to hide holes in a coloured wall, clog a exhust pipe. use them for number work with kids, place them on a abacus. use as a placeblo for a minor health alement (headache e.t.c). Grind them up and collect all the fraguments to grind into coloured powder.

(4)What images do the M&Ms evoke? Write them down.
My mind is blank for this one. I can think of them raining down though.

(5)Physically organize the M&Ms. What organizing principle did you use? Write it out.
I organized them into colour categories and peanut vs non-peanut. I can also organize them into a class system as well.

(6)In what other, more precise ways could you organize your M&Ms, if you had the resources and information? Make a list of your responses.
I could also organize them into broken, vs non-broken. Weight is another category and so is letters present vs missing.

(7)What positive, people-related things could you do with your M&Ms? Make a list.bless
. Use them to encourage people to behave in a good way.
. Encourage kids to learn in class by offering them some.
. Show that racism is bad by making up a story about how badly treated the reads were by the blues e.t.c.

(8)What special, personal meanings do M&Ms evoke for you? Write them down.bless
Mind is blank for this one. I literally cannot name one thing that they evoke in me feelings wise.

 

[Verona]

Very weird test

(1)Use all of your senses except for taste. Collect factual data about the M&Ms—without eating any of them. Write down your observations.

** round, colorful, small, melt if your hands are hot

(2)Write down any past memories of M&Ms.

** I got nothing. I've eaten them before but no specific memories.

(3)Write down any new uses for M&Ms that you can think of (besides eating them).

** as marbles, as coins or tokens in a card game, to decorate a picture, in a can as a noisemaker,

(4)What images do the M&Ms evoke? Write them down.

** confetti, polka dots, stars, party favors, coins, gumball machine

(5)Physically organize the M&Ms. What organizing principle did you use? Write it out.

** Organized by color in lines so you can see how many of each color you have (and then eat them in the proper order... this is actually how I always eat candy)

(6)In what other, more precise ways could you organize your M&Ms, if you had the resources and information? Make a list of your responses.

** By chocolate batch, by the clarity of the letter stamp, by production equipment used, specific weight, shape differences

(7)What positive, people-related things could you do with your M&Ms? Make a list.

** Eat them at a party, give them to people as a gift, use them during a game,

(8)What special, personal meanings do M&Ms evoke for you? Write them down.

** the commercial are cute and I enjoyed them. I prefer the Canadian Smarties to M&Ms so they make me feel like I am settling for a candy I don't like as much.

After I answered the questions I read the link and I am not sure what it says about me since the only answer I really struggled with was the Si one.

 

[illykitty]

I didn't have M&M in front of me, since I don't eat them anymore but using my imagination was enough I can easily conjure them up in my mind and see them as if they are really in front of me. I thought it was quite an interesting way to test oneself.

1. Smooth, colourful, smells sweet, shiny, makes click sounds, messy (colours run off), circular.

2. Melting the shell in my mouth until it's gone then eating the chocolate, sorting the colours and eating them from least favourite colour to most favourite.

3. Making images or messages with them, melting them with a blowtorch on a canvas maybe it'll melt in an interesting way, putting lots or little of them in containers and making sounds from them, making a pathway with them like if a child plays with cars you can make a roads, leading someone to you with them, pour a ton in a pool and dive in Scrooge McDuck style, use them as ammo, make a stop motion video, use them in an ASMR video, etc. I'll cut it here, since I get a new idea every time I think I'm done, this will get too long if I continue on.

4. Bubbles, traffic lights, children, grand-mother, Halloween, rainbows, sweets, toothaches, milk, artificial foodstuffs, unhealthiness. XD

5. By colour, lined up in square patterns, from least favourite colour to most favourite, that's how I always used to do it. There's no change in flavour but as a child I thought it was better to eat my favourite colour last, it would taste better and maybe I'm still childish but I somewhat still feel this way even if I know there's no difference

6. Least artificial? honestly this question sort of baffles me. I don't see how i could organise them in a "precise" way.

7. Share them with my entourage and chat, give them to people who are poor and don't eat sweets often to brighten their day, make cute art with them to make people smile... A lot of stuff from my #3 response, really.

8. Childhood mostly, and thinking about my colour sorting and reasoning behind it... I feel connected to my child-self in that I still kind of think this way. It's funny to reminisce on that. It also makes me think of my love of sweet things but how I've slightly moved on from there, due to taste changing, ethical implications, health focus and the practical reason that my teeth hurt if I eat something too sweet. It makes me think of my grand-mother and Halloween, that simple things made me happy. Innocence... I think there was some things in other responses that could fit in here.

Seems from this, I have ZERO Ti and underused Te... Meh Fe. Not sure about Ni, because I wonder if my answers even made sense. Ne and Fi are more used than other ones. Se wasn't bad but I ran out of things about it pretty quick. Si, well the fact that I responded to this quiz using my past sensory experience with M&Ms, I think my Si isn't bad at all. I think I may be an INFP and my Ne isn't as developed as it should be.