HEA Lesson 2.1: Attitudes, Values, and Affective Domain of Learning

Cognitive – Thinking

Affective – Feeling

Psychomotor – Doing

Domains of Learning

Thinking

Cognitive

Feeling

Affective

Doing

Psychomotor

Attitude

• Belief expressed indirectly through tone of voice, mannerism, or behavior.

• Characterized by a large proportion of emotional involvement such as feelings, self, and relationships in the community.

Attitude

Tendency to react positively or negatively towards an object.

• Always directed towards an object

• Always positive or negative

• Has tendency to react in a certain way

Affect

Cognitive

Action

3 Distinct Components of Attitude

Affect

Attitudes are mostly expressed as feelings or emotions.

• Emotional content of attitude

Cognitive

Rational component of attitude.

• Certain information or knowledge about the attitude

Action

Results when feelings and information have blended.

Values

• Are the motive behind purposeful action.

• The principles that help you to decide what is right and wrong, and how to act in various situations.

Rath, Harmin, and Simon (1966)

Valuing Process

Choosing

• Freely

• From alternatives

• After thoughtful consideration of consequence

Pricing

• Pricing and cherishing

• Publicly affirming

Acting on one’s belief

• Acting upon choices.

• Acting with some pattern

Choosing, Pricing, and Acting on one’s belief

What are the 3 valuing process?

Affective Domain of Learning

• Includes factors such as motivation, attitudes, perceptions, and values towards learning.

• Any behavior that has an emotional component lies within the affective domain.

Receiving, Responding, Valuing, Organizing, and Characterizing

What are the Subdomain of Affective Domain Learning?

Receiving

• Involves passively paying attention and being aware of the existence of certain ideas, material, or phenomena.

• Lowest level of affective domain since it is simply awareness of feelings and emotions.

• E.G: Listening to lectures, watching a YouTube film.

Responding

• Actively participating in a learning process.

• Participating in class discussion, giving a presentation, following directions.

Valuing

• Ability to see the value or worth of something and express it.

• Concerned with the worth you attach to a particular object, phenomenon,behavior, or piece of information.

• Ranges from simple acceptance to commitment.

• Proposing a plan to improve team skills, supporting ideas to increase.

Organizing

• Putting together different values, information, and ideas then relating them to already held beliefs to create your own unique system.

• Compares, relates, and assess values to create a unique value system.

• Spending more time to study than playing sports, recognizing the need for work and family balance.

Characterizing

• Acting consistently in accordance with the values you have internalized.

• Highest of the affective domain.

• Spending time with family, not being late for school, not using any kind of prohibited drugs, making friends based on quality.

Indoctrination, Role Model, and Values Clarification

What are the Continuum of Strategies in Teaching?

Indoctrination

Rules, regulations and rituals.

Role Model

Model desired attributes

Values Clarification

Student Centered