In the decision making process, identifying and weighing options as well as their risks and consequences is

The third stage of this process, where the different decision possibilities are evaluated, and their pros and cons are weighed to determine the correct option.

Explanation:

Any decision, at any level, is the result of the way in which the participants in the decision-making process understand the reality, of the way they interpret the information that is brought to their knowledge in various ways and of the way they filter it through their own personalities, values, beliefs, doctrines and ideologies. As a result, any decision is dependent on the image that participants in the decision-making process make of reality.

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