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The psychomotor domain is concerned with physical, motor or manipulation skills.
Handwriting, map drawing etc. are examples of the psychomotor domain.

The cognitive domain as described by Bloom et.al. (1956) is featured around the feature
of complexity. They are ordered from simple to complex. The cognitive domain consists of

the following six major levels:

 Knowledge

 Comprehension

 Application
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 Analysis

 Synthesis

 Evaluation

6.3.4 Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy of Instructional Objectives:

Lorin Anderson, a former student of Bloom, revisited the cognitive domain in the learning
taxonomy in the mid-nineties and made some changes, with perhaps the two most

prominent ones being,

1) Changing the names in the six categories from noun to verb forms, and

2) Slightly rearranging them (Anderson, Krathwohl, Airasian, Cruikshank, Mayer,

Pintrich, Raths, Wittrock, 2000; Pohl, 2000]

The new taxonomy based on Pohl, 2000, Learning to Think, Thinking to learn, has been
represented ahead.

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