Emotions, like motives, both arouse and direct our behavior. They are brief, acute changes in conscious experiences and physiology that occur in response to a personally meaningful situation. Emotions tend to prompt us to move toward or away from an object or person. While drives are aligned with specific needs, emotions are not.
Affect is the variety of emotional phenomena including emotions, moods, and affective traits. Moods are affective states that operate in the background of consciousness. Affective traits are stable predispositions toward certain types of emotional responses such as anger.
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