Affect/Affective:

Affect/affective refers to a wide range of underlying positive/negative emotional states: feelings, attachments, moods. According to adaptive prediction, affect is the culmination of interrelated processes: a synthesis of internal/external stimuli, emotional arousal (intensity), and memory. Affective and emotional are often used interchangeably, but affective is broader (emotions, feelings, moods), while emotional specifically refers to feelings and emotions. Also see Empathy and Social-Affective Functioning. In more detail, affective:

• Experience of feelings, emotions, moods, and attachments. 
• Encompasses a wide range of emotional states, both positive and negative. 
• Affect is used in psychology to describe the underlying experience of feeling. 
• Affective states can be longer-lasting mood states, not necessarily caused by a single stimulus. 
• Affective behavior can manifest in positive and negative nonverbal and/or verbal behaviors