AFFECTIVE DOMAIN

Key Words: acknowledge, asks, attentive,

Receiving Phenomena: Awareness, willingness to hear,
courteous, dutiful, follows, gives, listens,
selected attention.
understands

Responds to Phenomena: Active participation on the part

of the learners. Attend and react to a particular Key Words: answers, assists, aids,
phenomenon. Learning outcomes may emphasize complies, conforms, discusses, greets,
compliance in responding, willingness to respond, or helps, labels, performs, presents, tells
satisfaction in responding (motivation).

Valuing: The worth or value a person attaches to a

particular object, phenomenon, or behavior. This ranges
from simple acceptance to the more complex state of Key Words: appreciates, cherish,
commitment. Valuing is based on the internalization of a set treasure, demonstrates, initiates, invites,
of specified values, while clues to these values are joins, justifies, proposes, respect, shares
expressed in the learner's overt behavior and are often
identifiable.

Organization: Organizes values into priorities by

contrasting different values, resolving conflicts between Key Words: compares, relates,
them, and creating a unique value system. The emphasis is synthesizes
on comparing, relating, and synthesizing values. 

Internalizes Values (characterization): Has a value system

that controls their behavior. The behavior is pervasive,
Key Words: acts, discriminates, displays,
consistent, predictable, and most important characteristic of
influences, modifies, performs, qualifies,
the learner. Instructional objectives are concerned with the
questions, revises, serves, solves, verifies
student's general patterns of adjustment (personal, social,
emotional).

PSYCHOMOTOR DOMAIN

Perception (awareness): The ability to use sensory cues Key Words: chooses, describes, detects,
to guide motor activity.  This ranges from sensory differentiates, distinguishes, identifies,
stimulation, through cue selection, to translation. isolates, relates, selects.

Set: Readiness to act. It includes mental, physical, and

Key Words: begins, displays, explains,
emotional sets. These three sets are dispositions that
moves, proceeds, reacts, shows, states,
predetermine a person's response to different situations
volunteers.
(sometimes called mindsets).

Guided Response: The early stages in learning a complex

Key Words: copies, traces, follows, react,
skill that includes imitation and trial and error. Adequacy of
reproduce, responds
performance is achieved by practicing.

Key Words: assembles, calibrates,

Mechanism (basic proficiency): This is the intermediate
constructs, dismantles, displays, fastens,
stage in learning a complex skill. Learned responses have
fixes, grinds, heats, manipulates,
become habitual and the movements can be performed
measures, mends, mixes, organizes,
with some confidence and proficiency.
sketches.
Complex Overt Response (Expert): The skillful
Key Words: assembles, builds, calibrates,
performance of motor acts that involve complex movement
constructs, dismantles, displays, fastens,
patterns. Proficiency is indicated by a quick, accurate, and
fixes, grinds, heats, manipulates,
highly coordinated performance, requiring a minimum of
measures, mends, mixes, organizes,
energy. This category includes performing without
sketches.
hesitation, and automatic performance. 

Adaptation: Skills are well developed and the individual Key Words: adapts, alters, changes,
can modify movement patterns to fit special requirements. rearranges, reorganizes, revises, varies.

Origination: Creating new movement patterns to fit a Key Words: arranges, builds, combines,
particular situation or specific problem. Learning outcomes composes, constructs, creates, designs,
emphasize creativity based upon highly developed skills. initiate, makes, originates.

COGNITIVE DOMAIN

Key Words: defines, describes, identifies,

Remembering: Recall or retrieve previous learned knows, labels, lists, matches, names,
information. outlines, recalls, recognizes, reproduces,
selects, states

Key Words: comprehends, converts,

Understanding: Comprehending the meaning, translation, defends, distinguishes, estimates, explains,
interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and extends, generalizes, gives an example,
problems. State a problem in one's own words. infers, interprets, paraphrases, predicts,
rewrites, summarizes, translates

Key Words: applies, changes, computes,

Applying: Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted constructs, demonstrates, discovers,
use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the manipulates, modifies, operates, predicts,
classroom into novel situations in the work place. prepares, produces, relates, shows, solves,
uses

Key Words: analyzes, breaks down,

Analyzing: Separates material or concepts into component compares, contrasts, diagrams,
parts so that its organizational structure may be deconstructs, differentiates, discriminates,
understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences. distinguishes, identifies, illustrates, infers,
outlines, relates, selects, separates

Key Words: appraises, compares,

concludes, contrasts, criticizes, critiques,
Evaluating: Make judgments about the value of ideas or
defends, describes, discriminates,
materials.
evaluates, explains, interprets, justifies,
relates, summarizes, supports

Key Words: categorizes, combines,

compiles, composes, creates, devises,
Creating: Builds a structure or pattern from diverse
designs, explains, generates, modifies,
elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with
organizes, plans, rearranges, reconstructs,
emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.
relates, reorganizes, revises, rewrites,
summarizes, tells, writes