Blooms Taxonomy of Learning Domains breaks down learning types into three distinctive categories. These are cognitive (knowledge), affective (attitude) and psychomotor (skills).
The cognitive domain involves knowledge, intellectual abilities and skills. It requires learners to progress through six categories; knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. These categories are progressive in difficulty, where generally a learner will need to grasp the concepts within the first to move into the second.
The affective domain is the way learners process things emotionally with feelings and attitudes. This domain can be broken down into five categories. These include receiving phenomena, responding to phenomena, valuing, organisation and internalising values.
The psychomotor domain is a focus on physical learning using motor skills and movement. There are seven major categories within this domain, which are also progressive from the simplest behaviour to most complex. These categories are perception, set, guided response, mechanism, complex overt response, adaption and origination.
I found reading through Blooms Taxonomy very interesting. When I was first introduces to the learning domains it seemed quite intimidating. However the more I read through the concept and built my knowledge and understanding, I became more comfortable with it. I feel that Blooms Taxonomy could give me great benefit when designing learning experiences.
Information was found through provided reading material found at: http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html#cognitive
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