AFFECTIVE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Affective

... and that can only be as unconsciousness approaches, is attention absent. What is true of attention is also true of interest, for interest is coming more and more to be considered the "feeling side" of attention, or the affective accompaniment of attention. The kind of interest may vary, but some kind is always present. The place the interest occupies may also vary: sometimes the affective state itself is so strong that it forces itself into the focal point and becomes the object of attention. The chief fact of importance, ...

— How to Teach • George Drayton Strayer and Naomi Norsworthy