Bloom taxonomy affective domain – UGC NET Question

Bloom and his colleagues classified educational objectives into cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains. The affective domain deals with emotions, attitudes, interests, appreciation and value systems. Objectives in this domain focus on how learners feel about or respond to phenomena. Therefore, goals related to feelings, values and attitudes belong to the affective domain.

Option A:
Psychomotor domain involves physical skills, coordination and manipulation of objects. It is concerned with performance tasks such as handwriting or laboratory skills. Since the stem refers to feelings and values, this domain is not appropriate.

Option B:
Cognitive domain covers mental skills related to knowledge and intellectual abilities like remembering, understanding and applying. While important, it does not directly address emotional or value-based objectives. Thus, it does not fit the description.

Option C:
Interpersonal is not one of the original three domains proposed by Bloom, although social skills can be considered in broader classifications. The question specifically invokes Bloom’s taxonomy, which uses affective as the category for attitudes and values.

Option D:
Affective domain includes levels such as receiving, responding, valuing, organization and characterization by a value complex. It is explicitly associated with emotional and value-related learning. Hence, affective is the correct term to complete the statement.