Affective learning is a learning domain that is directed towards feelings and emotions. It is demonstrated by behaviors indicating attitudes of awareness, interest, attention, concern, and responsibility, as well as the ability to listen and respond in interactions with others. According to the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy, the affective domain includes “the manner in which we deal with things emotionally, such as feelings, values, appreciation, enthusiasms, motivations, and attitudes”. The affective domain is one of three domains of learning, the other two being cognitive and psychomotor.

The affective domain is broken down into five categories that develop from simple to complex over time:

• Receiving: being aware of or sensitive to the existence of certain ideas, material, or phenomena
• Responding: reacting to the material or information presented
• Valuing: attaching worth or value to the material or information presented
• Organization: organizing values into priorities by contrasting different values, resolving conflicts between them, and creating an unique value system
• Characterization: internalizing values and making them a part of ones behavior

Affective learning objectives focus on the learners interests, emotions, perceptions, tones, aspirations, and degree of acceptance or rejection. Affective learning results are identified with overseeing feelings, encouragement, interests, and perspectives. Teachers can influence affective learning by being highly immediate, which refers to the encouraging principles that learners stick to the behaviors of teachers in the classroom.