FAA Fundamentals of Instructing (FOI)The Learning ProcessEasy
A ground instructor is teaching a lesson on regulatory weather minimums, focusing purely on students' ability to recall facts, understand relationships, and apply figures correctly—rather than on attitudes or physical skills. This lesson is designed primarily to develop which domain of learning?
- ASensory domain
- BPsychomotor domain
- CCognitive domain
- DAffective domain
Show answer & explanationAnswer & explanation
Correct answer: C. Cognitive domain
The cognitive domain of learning deals with knowledge, comprehension, and intellectual skills such as recalling and applying facts. Since this lesson targets mental recall and understanding of regulations rather than feelings or physical movements, it falls under the cognitive domain.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Sensory domain is not one of the three recognized domains of learning.
- B. Psychomotor domain involves physical/motor skills, not weather minimum facts.
- D. Affective domain concerns attitudes, values, and emotions, not fact recall.
Cognitive Domain
The domain of learning concerned with knowledge, comprehension, and intellectual skills such as recalling, understanding, and applying information.
- One of three domains of learning: cognitive, affective, psychomotor
- Deals with 'thinking' skills and knowledge
- Includes recall, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation
Memory trick: Cognitive = head knowledge, Affective = heart feelings, Psychomotor = hands skills