Answer: D) groupthink
Explanation:
Groupthink refers to a situation in which a group of people come together and make decision without thinking of the effect or outcome. People in the group collectively reach general agreement by giving optimum importance to the opinion and view of the group instead of individual’s opinion and view. It usually happens when groups have limited time to make decision and as a result they resolve to general opinion of the group. Thus, this is done in order to keep the unity and peace of the group.
The desire for trade with Asia encouraged exploration of the Americas because in order to do so they had to search for a trade route. While doing so they landed in the Americas which was like unclaimed land to them so they explored it in order to gain it as their territory. The more land you had control over the more powerful the country was.
The term that could be best described as the way that Kevin is thinking is a social comparison. Social comparison is being defined as a way of individual's determine his or her social worth in which could be based from how the person stack against other people in which we could see how Kevin felt better after finding out that Samantha was struggling more than him.
