What is the Taxonomy of Objectives in the Affective Domain?

Taxonomy of Objectives in the Affective Domain:

Characterization by a value:

This is the highest level of the effective domain and includes characterization of a person’s behaviour by certain controlling values or beliefs and the integration of values and attitudes.

Organising:

This category, concern with the construction of relatively enduring value structure in the learner by organising and synthesizing the different value patterns imbibed by him from time to time. So organising the learner to form a set value structure.

Valuing:

When one attends as well as responds to a particular thing, idea or event he is naturally drifted towards taking value judgement about that thing, idea or event. In practice the objectives belonging to this category are usually concerned with the development of typical value patterns attitudes etc.

Responding:

It represents the second level for the categories belonging to affective domain. One a learner receives or attends to a particular idea, event or thing he must be made to respond to it as actively as possible. The responses here do not confine itself in just paying attention or arousal of a simple intention or desire of getting a thing, as in the first category of receiving but manifest themselves in the active behaviour like obeying, answering, reading, discussing, recording writing and reacting to a stimulus etc.

Receiving:

It represents the initial category for the objective belonging to affective domain. For the inculcation of certain interests, attitudes, values or ideas it is essential that the learner should be made to receive or attend the desire ideas, events or objects. This category points out towards this necessary and takes into consideration three types of following sequential activities-

a. The efforts are made for the control of the attention of the learner. He may be trained to selective attention and sustain it for a desired period.

b. Then the desired intension for receiving the stimuli is created in the leaner.

c. The leaner is made aware about the existence of certain stimuli.