Look up: Affect

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   affect
   [Verb] To influence or to cause someone or something to change.
   Example: The long hours might affect her health.
   See also: effective, effect
   Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary
   
   
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   affect
   [n] - the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion 2. [v] - have an emotional or cognitive impact upon 3. [v] - have an effect upon 4. [v] - act physically on
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   Affect
   Attitudes and behaviour that will influence children`s progress at school and their attainment.
   Found on http://www.nfer-nelson.co.uk/glossary/gl
   
   
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   Affect
   Feeling or emotion as distinguished from cognition, thought, or action. Affect means mood. Affective disorders are disorders of mood
   Found on http://www.dwp.gov.uk/medical/med_condit
   
   
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   Affect
   Affect: The emotional tone a person expresses. A person's affect may be appropriate or inappropriate to the situation. One type of inappropriate affect is a flat affect or blunted affect, a common feature of schizophrenia.
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   affect
   the conscious subjective aspect of an emotion considered apart from bodily changes. Category: Medicine
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
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   Affect
   A person's affect is their immediate emotional state which the person can recognise subjectively and which can also be recognised objectively by others. A person's mood is their predominant current affect.
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   Affect
   Af·fect' (ăf*fĕkt') transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Affected ; present participle & verbal noun Affecting .] [ Latin affectus , past participle of afficere to affect by active agency; ad + facere to make: confer French affectere , Latin affectare , freq. of affi ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/37
   
   
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   Affect
   Af·fect' noun [ Latin affectus .] Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition. [ Obsolete] Shak.
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    Affect
    Af·fect' noun (Psychotherapy) The emotional complex associated with an idea or mental state. In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the original idea.
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    affect
    The feeling-tone accompaniment of an idea or mental representation. It is the most direct psychic derivative of instinct and the psychic representative of the various bodily changes by means of which instincts manifest themselves. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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    affect
    noun the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
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    affect
    impress 1 move verb have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; `This child impressed me as unusually mature`; `This behavior struck me as odd`
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    affect
    impact verb have an effect upon; `Will the new rules affect me?`
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    affect
    verb act physically on; have an effect upon
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    affect
    regard verb connect closely and often incriminatingly; `This new ruling affects your business`
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    Affect
    The term `Affect` generally suggests an `emotion`. It is used in various ways in various contexts: * Affect (philosophy). * Affect (psychology), referring to feeling or emotion. * Affect display (psychology) refers to apparent signs of emotion, such as facial expression, vocalization, and posture * Affective science, the scientific study of emotion. * Any of several terms in abnormal psychology, including. :*Blunted affect or affective flattenin...
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    affect
    (af´ekt) the external expression of emotion attached to ideas or mental representations of objects. See also mood.
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns
    
    
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    Affect
    • (v. t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon. • (v. t.) To love; to regard with affection. • (v. t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. • (v. t.) To assign; to appoint. • (v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance. • (n.) Affe...
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    affect
    affect (uh FEKT) 1. As a verb, to influence, to act on, to modfy, to impinge on, to produce an effect on, to change, to modify; concern, relate to, pertain to, interest, regard: 'The rain will affect our plans for a picnic.' 2. To pretend, to feign, to put on, to simulate, to make a pretense of, to assume, to adopt, to imitate, to counterfe...
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    Affect
    (Lat. ad + facere, to do) The inner motive as distinquished from the intention or end of action. Cf. Spinoza, Ethics, bk. III. -- L.W.
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