Scrabble?! AFFECTIVITY

Definitions of AFFECTIVITY in various dictionaries:

Affect is a concept used in psychology to describe the experience of feeling or emotion. The term affect takes on a different meaning in other fields. In psychology, affect mediates an organism's interaction with stimuli. The word also refers sometimes to affect display, which is "a facial, vocal, or gestural behavior that serves as an indicator of affect" (APA 2006). The affective domain represents one of the three divisions described in modern psychology: the cognitive, the conative, and the affective. Classically, these divisions have also been referred to as the "ABC of psychology", in that case using the terms "affect", "behavior", and "cognition". In certain views, the cognitive may be considered as a part of the affective, or the affective as a part of the cognitive; it is important to note that "cognitive and affective states [are] merely analytic categories". Affective states are psycho-physiological constructs. According to most current views, they vary along 3 principal d