Task: Class Definition Understanding (ontology: Human_Society/EmotionOntology)

Which of the following definitions best describes 'affective process'?

A. A mental process that has positive or negative valence.
B. An affective process that involves the experience of internal or external sensory stimuli.
C. A mental process that involves thinking about a state of affairs that is not yet the case together with a desire for that state of affairs to come about.
D. (for the case of the concept X, where X is an event in the organism’s history) a mental process that is a) about X, and b) made possible by the physical traces left by a causal process involving the organism during the event X

Answer: A mental process that has positive or negative valence.