Cassie- Week 5

Week 5... we learned about learning!! :)
We learned a lot about Bloom's Taxonomy:

• Cognitive: mental skills (Knowledge)
• Affective: growth in feelings or emotional areas (Attitude)
• Psychomotor: manual or physical skills (Skills)

The Cognitive domain ( knowledge) involves knowledge and the development of intellectual skills. This includes the recall or recognition of specific facts, procedural patterns, and concepts that serve in the development of intellectual abilities and skills. There are six major categories; they can be thought of as degrees of difficulties. Meaning, the first category has to be mastered before moving on to the second one.

Knowledge: Recall data or information. - reciting or quoting something.

Comprehension: Understand the meaning, translation. - being able to explain the aspects and basics.

Application: Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Using statistics to evaluate a research experiment's results.

Analysis: Distinguishes between facts and inferences. - compares and contrasts.

Synthesis: Put parts together to form a whole, creating a new meaning or structure. -Design a machine to
perform a specific task.

Evaluation: Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.- Hiring the most qualified candidate.


The Affective domain (attitude) includes the manner in which we deal with things emotionally, such as feelings, values, appreciation, enthusiasms, motivations, and attitudes.
There are 5 categories for this domain:

Receiving : Awareness, willingness to hear, selected attention.- Listen to others with respect and remembering newly introduced people's names.

Responding: Active participation on the part of the learners.- Participates in class discussions. Questions new ideas.

Valuing: The worth or value a person attaches to a particular object or behavior. Based on the internalization of a set of specified values. - Is sensitive towards individual and cultural differences (values diversity).

Organization: Organizes values into priorities by contrasting different values and creating a unique value system.- Accepts responsibility for one's behavior.

Internalizing values (characterization): Has a value system that controls their behavior. - Shows self-reliance when working independently.


The Psychomoto domain (skills) includes physical movement, coordination, and use of the motor-skill areas. Development of these skills requires practice and is measured in terms of speed, precision, distance, procedures, or techniques in execution.
There are 7 categories for this domain:

Perception: The ability to use sensory cues to guide motor activity. - Detects non-verbal communication cues.

Set: Readiness to act. Includes mental, physical, and emotional sets.- Shows desire to learn a new process (motivation).

Guided Response: The early stages in learning a complex skill that includes imitation and trial and error. - Doing a mathematical equation as demonstrated.

Mechanism: This is the intermediate stage in learning a complex skill.- Use a personal computer.

Complex Overt Response: The skillful performance of motor acts that involve complex movement patterns. - Maneuvers a car into a tight parallel parking spot.

Adaptation: Skills are well developed and the individual can modify movement patterns to fit special requirements. - Responds effectively to unexpected experiences.

Origination: Creating new movement patterns to fit a particular situation or specific problem. - Creates a new gymnastic routine.