Knowledge, Skills & Attitudes

Randomly, a person will gain a knowledge by reading some books, make a research or attending a lecture and provided their own prior knowledge. Besides, they may also involve in new situation to get a new experience by hands-on, experimentation, observation and many more. This is the basic steps as the person can improve their understanding by applying the concept they learn in daily life or in future..


according to the diagram, the cycle can be randomly whether knowledge comes first followed by skills (psychomotor) and attitudes or vice versa. for scientific skills, it involves manipulative skills or physical motion for example in handling apparatus in laboratory such as a proper ways to use pipette and burette.. other than that, observation is also one type of skills that all people doing consciously and unconsciously to create new experiments and knowledge. thus, apart from this, a person may increase and improve their thinking skills and invent something creative, interesting and comes out with latero ideas (out of box).


last but not least, scientific attitudes comes after or before skills and knowledge based on the diagram. Attitude here means growth in feeling or emotion areas. besides, it includes the manner in which people deal with things emotionally, such as feelings, values, appreciation, enthusiasms, motivations, and attitudes. A true scientist or even a public do have all those feeling in making life of science as interesting as possible and they worth for it.