Question- Discuss the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives of cognitive, affective and psychomotor as given by B.S. Bloom.

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Question- What do you understand by Cognitive Objectives?

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(a) Cognitive Objectives :- The Cognitive Objectives are knowledge, understanding, creative or critical analysis. The aim of these objectives is that the students should acquire more knowledge. In cognitive aspect, psychological processes like recall and recognition remain active, therefore efforts are made to develop this aspect more through various school subjects. According to Bloom, knowledge acquired by cognitive objectives includes :—

• knowledge of specifics.
• knowledge of connection.
• knowledge of processes and events.
• knowledge of classification and categories.
• knowledge of principles.
• knowledge of generalisation.

Bloom suggested that to develop cognitive domain by cognitive objectives, it is essential to cross the six stages of cognitive domain.

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