(q002) anton thinks he is intelligent and good at math. when he starts taking an advanced placement calculus class he realizes all the students are incredibly smart and they all excel in the class. anton thinks to himself, "wow, compared to these students, i am not as smart as i thought." anton's statement reflects an immediate sense of his own identity in this situation, which is called:

The answer is self-concept.

Explanation:

This refers to the awareness of oneself in terms of skills or unique characteristics. Our self-concept consodilates as we grow up, as we get to "know ourselves" better; however, it's constantly changing through adolescence and early adulthood.

In the example, Anton's self-concept may be categorised as academic self-concept, which is related to success or failure in school.

there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.