Identification, according to the real Spanish academy, this word is the action and the effect of identifying or identifying oneself. In other words, it is the act of making known or proving that a specific person or entity is the same as being sought. In other words, the term can refer to checking the similarity or equality that exists between two things. Or the fact of sharing with another individual the way of thinking, believing or having the same ideals and principles.
The official document or accreditation granted by a jurisdiction or entity in order to classify each individual or person can also be called identification. Then we have the identification of people, this is a process that can be visually of a person when recognizing or being recognized by another being or as we mentioned before by means of a document that alleges or proves that he is the person he claims to be; In addition to the aforementioned, there are other types of identification through automatic systems such as fingerprint sensor, facial recognition, voice recognition, control by reading the iris, palm of the hand, vein reader.
In psychology, identification is the perception that each individual has of himself, made up of his beliefs, abilities, skills, among others; It is a mechanism by which a person usually resembles another or the behavior that we copy from another being. We must establish that identification is closely related to identity, which is the group or set of traits and characteristics of a subject or of a society compared to others.
