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The six questions in the "Reading Review" section of the Companion Website are calibrated to each stage of cognition as visualized in Bloom’s Taxonomy. This approach has been taken so that in answering questions and thinking about the information in the text, students build the skills they need for the higher-level thinking expected of them by the authors of this textbook. Below you will find a brief explanation of Bloom’s Taxonomy and the six stages of cognition with the accompanying action verbs associated with them (taken from Bloom’s Taxonomy). You can use these verbs to understand the pedagogy underlying this Companion Website and as guides for developing exam and in-class discussion questions. Explanation"In 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning. This became a taxonomy including three overlapping domains; the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective. Each of the domains can be utilized through the interaction of media.Cognitive learning is demonstrated by knowledge recall and the intellectual skills: comprehending information, organizing ideas, analyzing and synthesizing data, applying knowledge, choosing among alternatives in problem-solving, and evaluating ideas or actions. This domain on the acquisition and use of knowledge is predominant in the majority of courses. Bloom identified six levels within the cognitive domain, from the simple recall or recognition of facts, as the lowest level, through increasingly more complex and abstract mental levels, to the highest order which is classified as evaluation. Verb examples that represent intellectual activity on each level are listed here." Six Stages of Cognition
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