Three domains of learning/ Bloom’s taxonomy of learning

Cognitive domain (thinking): It deals with the intellectual side of learning. There are six categories under it:

1. Knowledge: It is the ability to recall information.
2. Comprehension: It is about understanding and interpreting the data.
3. Application: It involves the use of knowledge in new situations.
4. Analysis: It is the division of information to smaller parts to understand facts and differences
5. Synthesis: It is combining different information to form a pattern.
6. Evaluation: It is the ability to form judgements about a situation.

Affective domain (emotion/ feeling): It deals with a person’s feelings and emotions, relating to interest, attitude, and values relating to learning the information. It includes;

1. Receiving information or any phenomena: It means becoming aware of feelings and emotions.
2. Responding to a situation: It involves active participation of the people.
3. Valuing: It is about finding the worth of something.
4. Organization: It means to organize or rank the values according to the importance.
5. Characterization: It is the process of internalizing the value that is reflected in a person’s behaviour.

Psychomotor domain (physical/ kinaesthetic): It deals with using motor skills and actions that require physical coordination. It involves the following;

1. Perception: It is the result of sensory information.
2. Set: It is the readiness to act on the given opportunity.
3. Guided response: It is an ability to copy someone’s behaviour or any instructions.
4. Mechanism: It is an ability to convert a response into a habit, being skill-full.
5. Complex clear response: It is an ability to perform complex patterns of action.
6. Adaptation: It means adaptation of one’s behaviour in case of special events.
7. Origination: It is the formation of new ways or patterns for a situation.