William’s Cognitive-Affective Matrix Model

William’s model has been designed to assist with the implementation of cognitive-affective behaviours in the classroom and it provides for a range of higher order thinking skills. It has three dimensions, a cognitive dimension, an affective dimension, and a teaching strategies dimension.

Cognitive – Intellective Behaviours
Fluency	Involves generation of ideas, related answers or choices in a given situation.
Flexibility	Involves changing everyday objects to generate a variety of categories by taking detours and varying size, shape, dimensions, etc in a given situation.
Originality	Unusual and/or unique ideas or responses.
Elaboration	Developing ideas that enlarge, enrich, expand or embellish; addition of details.
Affective – Temperament Behaviours
Risk Taking	Involves taking chances.
Curiosity	Encouraged to follow a hunch, question alternatives, be inquisitive.
Complexity	Involves delving into complex problems.
Imagination	Involves visualising possibilities, building mental images and reaching beyond the limits.
Teaching Strategies
Paradox	Statement or proposition which seems contradictory but may express a truth.
Attribute Listing	Inherent properties or identities that must be open ended.
Analogy	Finding similarities b/w things or situations which may in other ways be different.
Discrepancy	Gaps or missing links in knowledge.
Provocative Question	Inquiry to incite exploration and curiosity.
Examples of Change	Show the dynamics of things; make modifications, alterations or substitutions.
Examples of Habit	Build sensitivity to habit bound thinking.
Organised Random Search	Structured case study for new courses of action.
Skills of Search	Research on something done before; trial and error on new ways.
Tolerance for Ambiguity	Pose open ended situations.
Intuitive Expression	Expressing emotion through the senses; guided imagery; role playing.
Adjustment to Development	Examine or play back mistakes or failures.
Study Creative Development	Analyse the traits of creative people; creative processes; creative products.
Evaluate Situations	Extrapolate from ideas and actions; analyse implications or consequences.
Creative Reading Skills	Generate novel ideas by reading.
Creative Listening Skills	Generate novel ideas by listening.
Creative Writing Skills	Generate novel ideas by writing.
Visualisation	Express ideas in three dimensional format or non-traditional formats.