The Taxonomy of Cognitive Objectives

for the American Psychological Association to create a taxonomy of objectives for assessors. Bloom and his colleagues eventually developed three taxonomies: Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor. The most famous of these endeavors was the cognitive officially entitled the Taxonomy of Objectives in the Cognitive Domain. It is usually simply called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Also in the 1950’s a young cognitive psychologist, who studied in Geneva with Piaget, was working in Israel developing his theory of structural cognitive modifiability. His name was Reuven Feuerstein. This short paper proposes to investigate the work of both of these eminent psychologists, to examine Bloom’s taxonomy and Feuerstein’s cognitive modifiability and to discuss the commonalties between the two. Briefly the work of Professor Bloom can be stated as assessment in the cognitive domain has six components

Globalization, psychology and social issues research: An introduction and conceptual framework

This manuscript provides an introduction to the JSI special issue on The Intersection of Psychology and Globalization. We provide both theoretical and applied rationale for why the discipline of psychology would be well served by entering into the academic discourse on globalization. We present a multifaceted definition of globalization and review extant social science research on globalization that speaks to the psychological implications of globalization. We also discuss Bronfrenbrenner\u27s ecological model as an appropriate theoretical framework to link individual health, behavior and attitudes to macro socioeconomic processes. With this as a backdrop we introduce each of the manuscripts in this special issue with a focus on their specific contributions to developing a theoretical and empirical foundation for understanding and responding to the relationship between psychology and globalization