The correct arrangement of objectives under affective domain, from least to…

Concept: Krathwohl, Bloom, and Masia's Affective Domain taxonomy organizes learning objectives into five hierarchical levels of increasing internalization of values and emotional engagement, each level building on the one before it: Receiving (awareness of a stimulus) → Responding (active participation) → Valuing (attaching worth) → Organization (integrating values into a coherent system) → Characterization (consistently acting from that system).

Application: Applying this hierarchy here, the least-to-most-complex order is receiving, responding, valuing, organization, characterization, because each stage is a prerequisite for internalizing the next: a learner must first become aware of the stimulus (receiving) before reacting to it (responding), must react before assigning it worth (valuing), must hold individual values before integrating them into one system (organization), and must have that organized system in place before it can consistently guide behaviour (characterization).

Why the other sequences are incorrect:

• responding, receiving, valuing, organization and characterization — this places active reaction before the basic awareness that must trigger it.

• receiving, responding, valuing, characterization and organization — this places consistent value-driven behaviour before those values have been organized into a coherent system.

• receiving, responding, organization, valuing and characterization — this places the integration of values into a system before those values have been individually appraised.