Bloom’s Taxonomy

In Bloom’s Taxonomy , the Cognitive domain relates to knowledge and intellect while the Affective domain deals with values and perception, and the Psychomotor domain focuses on developing or acquiring skills. One of the goals of the taxonomy is to motivate educators to focus on all three domains, creating a more holistic form of education.

(intellectual skills)

• Knowledge
• Comprehension
• Application
• Analysis
• Synthesis
• Evaluation

• Remember
• Understand
• Apply
• Analyze
• Evaluate
• Create

• Recall information
• Recall and interpret information
• Use abstract information in concrete situations
• Divide information into constituent parts
• Build a structure or pattern from many disorganized elements
• Assess the value of information

• Retrieve from memory
• Make sense of information
• Use information that is learned
• Use mental processes to differentiate between parts of information and determine connections
• Interpret and reason to determine implications and make recommendations
• Combine parts to form a whole/new configuration

(emotional areas)

• Receiving (be willing to hear and open to experience)
• Responding (react)
• Valuing (attach values to a particular object or behavior)
• Organization (prioritize values and adapt behavior to value system)
• Characterization or internalization (integrate values into a philosophy of life).

(manual or physical skills)

• Reflex (involuntary movements)
• Fundamental movements (movements typical of young children)
• Perceptual abilities (e.g. distinguish)
• Physical abilities (e.g. change speed or direction of movements)
• Skilled movements (e.g. swim)
• Non-discursive communication (e.g. mime). ^[1]