What is the cognitive domain of learning?

• A. Attitude changes only.
• B. Physical movements and skills.
• C. Emotions, values, attitudes, beliefs.
• D. The thinking domain that includes knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

Answer: (D)

The main concept here is the cognitive domain of learning, which focuses on mental processes involved in knowing. The best description is that it’s the thinking domain that includes knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. This captures the progression from recalling information to understanding it, using it in new situations, breaking it down, combining ideas, and making judgments about value. The other descriptions point to learning in terms of attitudes and emotions (affective domain) or physical skills (psychomotor domain), not thinking processes.