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Table 6.3
(continued)
Complex overt response: Examples:
The skillful performance of Maneuvers a car into a tight parallel parking spot
motor acts that involve Operates a computer quickly and accurately
complex movement patterns; Displays competence while playing the piano
profi ciency is indicated by a Keywords
quick, accurate, and highly Assembles, builds, calibrates, constructs, dismantles,
coordinated performance, displays, fastens, fi xes, grinds, heats, manipulates,
requiring a minimum of measures, mends, mixes, organizes, sketches. (Note
energy; this category includes that the keywords are the same as for mechanism, but
performing without hesitation, will have adverbs or adjectives that indicate that the
and automatic performance; for performance is quicker, better, more accurate, and so
example, players are often utter on)
sounds of satisfaction or
expletives as soon as they hit a
tennis ball or throw a football,
because they can tell by the feel
of the act what the result will
produce
Adaptation: Examples:
Skills are well developed and Responds effectively to unexpected experiences
the individual can modify Modifi es instruction to meet the needs of the learners
movement patterns to fi t Perform a task with a machine that it was not
special requirements originally intended to do (machine is not damaged
and there is no danger in performing the new task)
Keywords
Adapts, alters, changes, rearranges, reorganizes,
revises, varies
Origination: Examples:
Creating new movement Constructs a new theory
patterns to fi t a particular Develops a new and comprehensive training
situation or specifi c problem; programming
learning outcomes emphasize Creates a new gymnastic routine
creativity based upon highly Keywords
developed skills Arranges, builds, combines, composes, constructs,
creates, designs, initiate, makes, originates

Source: Adapted from Bloom 1956.