Affective means having to do with emotion. It is most commonly used in psychology and psychiatry to describe emotions. The word affective is something of an opposite to cognitive. Psychological theory is that one half of the brain is affective or emotional. The other half of the brain is cognitive, logical, and language-oriented. Emotional redirects here. ... Psychology is an academic or applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes such as perception, cognition, emotion, personality, behavior, and interpersonal relationships. ... Psychiatrist redirects here. ... Cognitive The scientific study of how people obtain, retrieve, store and manipulate information. ... The word theory has a number of distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on their methodologies and the context of discussion. ... Cognitive The scientific study of how people obtain, retrieve, store and manipulate information. ... Logic (from ancient Greek λόγος (logos), meaning reason) is the study of arguments. ...

Some differences between affective biases or disorders and cognitive ones

For example, a symptom of an affective disorder could be schizoaffective disorder. This means that the emotions are split -- schizo means "split". For example, the person suffering from the disorder may be very afraid, yet feel spiritual at the same time as he or she tries to cope with the feelings of fear by becoming spiritual. This may not be a bad way to cope with extreme feelings of fear, but that is an example of schizo-affective. The person has extreme feelings of fear, yet has extreme feelings of spirituality at the same time. The term symptom (from the Greek meaning chance, mishap or casualty, itself derived from συμπιπτω meaning to fall upon or to happen to) has two similar meanings in the context of physical and mental health: Strictly, a symptom is a sensation or change in health function experienced by a patient. ... The affective spectrum is a grouping of related psychiatric and medical disorders which may accompany bipolar, unipolar, and schizoaffective disorders at statistically higher rates than would normally be expected. ...

In contrast, being schizophrenic means that the cognitive aspects of ones mental ability are impaired because cognition is split and the person cannot understand the whole, but only split parts of their own thoughts. This causes confusion, and a thought disorder that is debilitating. Cognitive The scientific study of how people obtain, retrieve, store and manipulate information. ... Look up Cognition in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

It is a common misconception that schizophrenia means multiple personalities. This is not true. A person with schizophrenia, has a hard time understanding logic, and other left brain tasks. A concept is an abstract, universal idea, notion or entity that serves to designate a category or class of entities, events or relations. ... Overview In psychiatry, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is the current name of the condition formerly listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) and Multiple Personality Syndrome. ... Logic, from Classical Greek λόγος logos (the word), is the study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration. ... Human brain viewed from above, showing cerebral hemispheres. ...

A person with split personality, in contrast, assumes different distinct personalities, conditional upon an internal condition or an external stimulus. This article is about the album by Cassidy. ... Stimulation is the irritating action of various agents (stimuli) on muscles, nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which activity is evoked; especially, the nervous impulse produced by various agents on nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which the part connected with the nerve is thrown into a state...

See also

• Affect
• Affective spectrum

rader than an confusion its adding things too the reality ( witch is very likely to the patient/persone) in the cognitive part of the subjekt. well thats my meaning beeing one with rhe problem. The things that is added is often very likely to the patient and confusion due to poore understanding betweene patient and doctor/spesialist may ad too ...well wath the hell is going on....one the behafe of the patient...witch is what realy matters.. Look up affect in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The affective spectrum is a grouping of related psychiatric and medical disorders which may accompany bipolar, unipolar, and schizoaffective disorders at statistically higher rates than would normally be expected. ...