The Three Learning Domains
Bloom and his friends are well known for dividing into three categories or domains; cognitive, psychomotor, and affective.
The cognitive domain includes the learning and appliciation of knowledge.
The psychomotor domain incorporates the development of the physical body and neuromuscular skills.
The affective domain involves the acquisition of attitudes, appreciations, and values.
The learning outcomes in each area were arranged by Bloom and his colleagues into levels they considered they considered hierarchical in nature. That means that the performance of behaviours at each level would be prerequisite to the behaviors at a higher level. (Instructional Strategies For Secondary School Physical Education by Joyce M. Harrison & Connie L. Blakemore, p.113)