Identity is a set of acttitudes and characteristics that differentiate us from other people, identity begins to form inside the family nucleus and is determined mainly by the environment in which the individual develops, then adolescence shows up and society comes into play, there we adopt other values and even modify some of our own, the society in which we develop will tell us which values are more accepted than others, but when we reach adulthood, we are a little more capable of determining what we accept and what we don´t, but our identity has already formed.
The answer is : A. Affect
In Psychology, Affect inclue all type of emotion that human can recognize (such as happiness, sadness, fear, hope, etc.)
People develop an affect in two basic steps.:
- The first one is by receiving a stimuli. The stimuli could be anything that people encounter in our environment as long as it take a large portion of our attention.
- The second one is processing that stimuli and determine how that stimuli correlate with us.
For example, let's say that a person is suddenly screamed and duck after he heard a loud gunshot.
That gunshot is a stimuli. The person process that stimuli and determine that it could be something that harmful to him. So as a result, he develop the feeling of fear.
<span>Jason is more apt to take initiative and persevere to influence the environment; he has a "proactive" personality.
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Somebody who has a proactive identity or personality is more adept to step up and continue on to impact nature. Research uncovers that proactive individuals have a tendency to be more happy with their occupations, focused on their manager, and deliver more work than non-proactive people.