Chapter 3: Biological Basis of Behavior Discussion Questions

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Discussion Points are awarded for comments that · reflect that you have read the required text and readings · that you have prepared the discussion questions in advance · that you have thought about the content · that you have attempted to understand the readings · and that you are able to apply the content to “real life.” In other words, quality comments reflect effort, accuracy, and thoroughness. If you do not understand the material, you can still earn participation points by demonstrating that you have made an effort to understand the material and that you have read the text. Trying to struggle with and figure out the information merits points. I expect you to make posts that directly address all parts of the discussion questions as well as respond to others’ postings. Points awarded for responses to others’ postings will be awarded using the same criteria as original posts (see above, see syllabus).

You will not earn points for posts/replies that do not meet the above criteria or for posts/replies that simply reflect information from your personal life without incorporating specific concepts and understanding of the chapter.

Your reply should focus on enhancing your peer’s discussion and not on the organization or if you enjoyed reading it. This can be mentioned but should not be the focus. Further, you will not earn points by simply stating that you agree or disagree with a classmate without fully supporting your opinion with concepts from the course material. Your peer response must enhance your peer’s post while incorporating concepts from the course material directly related to the discussion question.

Required: Two posts per chapter. Original posts must be a minimum of 400 words combined. (approx 200 words each).

Required: Two responses to peers’ posts per chapter. Peer responses must be a minimum of 125-150 words for each peer response.

Complete both discussion topics below. Inside your discussion always start by titling your post in bold using one of the topic titles below and then discuss your topic starting on the next line. You will then reply to two of your peers’ posts from either the same or different topic. On the top line of your peer responses write “reply to:” and then the title of the peers’ post to which you are responding. Start your peer response on the next line.

Chapter 3: The Biological Basis of Behavior reviews various aspects of the brain and nervous system as they relate to emotions, behavior, and other areas of functioning. For this discussion board you will be writing about the organization of the nervous system and the brain and behavior.

Complete BOTH A and B discussion topics.

Discussion A) Organization of the Nervous System

You are about to give your first speech in front of your speech class and are nervous about getting up in front of everyone. As you anticipate getting up in front of the class, you begin to feel butterflies in your stomach and a pounding in your chest. Using this example, explain how the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions of the autonomic nervous system work together to help your body react to this situation.

Discussion B) The Brain and Behavior

Imagine meeting four separate individuals who have each sustained injuries to different sections of their brain. Person A has irreversible damage to her frontal lobe. Person B has irreversible damage to his parietal lobe. Person C has irreversible damage to her temporal lobe, and person D has irreversible damage to his occipital lobe. Briefly, what would be the effects of each of these injuries?

Review the “Writing Argumentative Essays” section in Ch. 3 of Critical Thinking.

Write an 1,050-word argumentative essay on your approved business decision in which you include the following:

• Discuss why the business decision is good or not good for business.
• Define the term good for the purpose of this situation.
• Identify the premise and conclusion by placing a number in bold at the beginning of the sentence with the word premise or conclusion.  For example: (1, Premise), (2, Premise), (1, Conclusion), (2, Conclusion).
• Sentences labeled as “1, premise” are premises for the sentence labeled as “1, conclusion.”
• All premises should be labeled for each conclusion in the article. If a sentence is a conclusion and a premise for another conclusion, place two labels.
• At the end of the paper, identify one example of how you used deductive reasoning and one example of how you used inductive reasoning.

OUTLINE FIR THIS DISCUSSION IS ATTACHED

Write (due Thursday, Day 3): Utilize your
outline to make a list of every claim and all supporting evidence for your
argument thus far, keeping an eye on the appeal to logos. Each claim should be
written by you in your own words and should introduce a part of your unique
argument. Paraphrase or summarize your supporting
evidence and include a proper APA-style in-text citation. You may include multiple pieces
of evidence for each claim.

List your thesis
statement, claims, and evidence in the following format:

• Thesis statement: Write your single-sentence thesis
  statement here.
• Claim: Write your first claim in a complete sentence
  here.
  • Evidence: Paraphrase or summarize your source and cite
    it here (Sample, 2015).
  • Evidence: Paraphrase or summarize additional sources
    that support this claim and cite them here as 2., 3., 4., and so on
    (Sample, 2015).
  • Evidence: If you feel the need to use a quote, “add it
    to the list with proper quotation marks and the appropriate in-text
    citation containing the page, section, or paragraph number in the original
    source” (Sample, 2015, p. 22).
• Claim: Write your second claim in a complete sentence
  here.
  • Evidence: Paraphrase or summarize your source here
    (Sample, 2015).
  • Evidence: Continue to paraphrase and summarize your
    sources for each claim (Sample, 2015).
• Claim: Continue to write your claims in complete
  sentences.
  • Evidence
  • Evidence
• In 200 to 300 words, compare your claims and evidence
  to the common fallacies described in “An Introduction to Logic and
  Syllogisms.”
  • Describe any fallacies you locate and describe how you
    will remove those fallacies this week.
  • Describe how your claims logically support your thesis
    statement as well-supported premises.
• Be sure to use the correct vocabulary when discussing
  fallacy: Slippery slope, hasty generalization, post hoc ergo propter hoc,
  either/or, ad hominem, etc.
• End your post with any questions or concerns you have
  regarding the appeal to logos, the use of supporting evidence, the role of
  claims in an argument, or fallacies.

Below is the outline that I created for class for this project.   Review the outline that I created and make any necessary updated to improve the outline.  

The Interview Process (How to Select the Right Candidate?)

Key Outline 

Determining the Need to Hire a Candidate

1. Anyone that is involved in the process must understand the need of the business make the right decision for the business

2. Are the current employees being used to their full capacity

Conduct a Job Analysis

1. What are the current job function

2. Are there any functions of the current role that needs to be changed

3. Review job function with employees that are currently in the role to determine if any additional description should be documented

Job Documentation

• Document the job specification based on the job analysis review

Salary Review

• Review salary options based on internal and external compensation for the same job function

Determine How to attract candidates

1. Time Frame to identify a candidate

2. Internal vs External Posting

3. Advertising

Collect & Review Applications

–  Review candidates that determine the best match for review with department managers.

Determine What Type of Interview should be conducted

Interview Questions

1. -Determine what questions to ask.

2. What does the candidate know about the job, and the company?

3. Work experience and education

4. Review any employment test with the candidate

Sample Questions

1. Describe a time on any job in which you were faced with stresses which tested your coping skills?

2. Give an example of a time in which you had to be relatively quick in coming to a decision?

3. Describe a job experience in which you had to speak up to be sure that other people knew what you thought or felt.

4. Give me an example of a specific occasion in which you had to conform to a policy with which you did not agree.

5. Describe the most creative work-related project which you have carried out.

6. What did you do in your last job to contribute toward a teamwork environment?

7. What ways have you found to make your job easier or more rewarding?

Selection Process

Onboarding

30, 60 & 90 Day Review

Directions . 

– Make updates to the outline that could add benefit you outline .

– Create a power point presentation with at least 4-5 slides in length with at least 200 words of speaker notes per slide, addressing the following questions.  The last slide should include references. 

• How does the HR department support the organization’s competitiveness by maintaining a highly skilled and motivated workforce through training and development?
• Discuss the tactics that companies can use to ensure that they retain highly qualified employees through no-cost and low-cost compensation, training, and development.
• From your prior knowledge, experiences, and learning, discuss at least 2 strategic changes that you would recommend to your current company or industry to improve its training and development to retain its best employees.

There are 2 parts to this!

Use APA Format

PART 1

You are in the role of project manager for a hamburger franchise global expansion project. The magnitude of the project requires you to prepare for the project kickoff meeting and business negotiations with the project team who are potential partners from Mexico, China, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). You understand that these cultures are vastly different. They have different business customs, social protocols, and languages. However, they also have a strong relationship with several of your vendors so they may be viable business partners for your expansion project.

To prepare for your project kickoff meeting and first outreach effort with each country, analyze the cultural similarities and differences that exist between the countries and the United States using Geert Hofstede’s Six Cultural Dimensions as discussed in class. Provide a bar graph or table along with a discussion of these comparisons (400-600 words).

Step One:

Visit Geert Hofstede Cultural Dimensions https://geert-hofstede.com/countries.html

Step Two:

Create a country comparison using the United States in first dropdown menu box to see the values for the six cultural dimensions. After selecting the United States, a second and a third country can be chosen in the second dropdown menu box. Keep the United States in the first box and then repeat for each country (Mexico, China, United Arab Emirates, and Israel) involved in the fast food expansion project to see a comparison of their scores.

Step Three:

Create a bar graph or table to highlight how the four countries compare to the United States by using the value scores under the comparison to create the bar chart. How to make a graph on Microsoft Word:

1. Click “Insert” tab
2. Click “Chart” in the Illustrations Group
3. Select “Bar”
4. Click “OK” to insert a chart and a spreadsheet will open alongside your Word document. The spreadsheet contains sample figures surrounded by a blue border. Column “A” contains data labels. The remaining columns contain data.
5. Click a corner of the border. Drag it down or up to add or remove items from the graph.

Step Four:

Using the United States as a basis for comparison, evaluate each country’s similarities and differences. Use your textbook, muse, live chats and the CTU Library to help identify cultural characteristics that will be important during your first project meeting with each country.

PART 4 IP

Your fast-food franchise cleared for business in all four countries (United Arab Emirates, Israel, Mexico, and China). You now have to start construction on your restaurants. The financing is coming from the United Arab Emirates, the materials are coming from Mexico and China, the engineering and technology are coming from Israel, and the labor will be hired locally within these countries by your management team from the United States. You invite all of the players to the headquarters in the United States for a big meeting to explain the project and get to know one another. In preparation for the meeting, you want to avoid cultural silos, while ensuring all parties engage with each other. Answer the following questions in preparation:

• What do you know about these cultures, specifically their political, economic, legal, educational, family, and social systems, that could help you in getting the project team together?
• What are some of the contrasting cultural values about uncertainty avoidance, ethnocentrism, communication apprehension, and culture shock that could potentially influence a cultural silo mindset and prevent team engagement?

International Managers are more focused on global virtual teams to manage projects and gain a strategic advantage. The global team for the fast food expansion project is dispersed in geographically different regions, and after the first project meeting in the United States, you plan to use a combination of social media technology to accomplish the team goals. The complexity of global virtual teams goes beyond the traditional principles used for national teams. As you begin to plan, you are concerned about some of the challenges that will exist during the virtual meetings, particularly the fact that the United States is an individualist low-context country, and some of the countries present are collectivist high-context countries. What strategies would you use to begin to have everyone develop a relationship with each other that will help ease engagement and collaboration during the virtual meeting and future negotiations, development, and implementation? Address the following questions in your response:

• What are some of the issues you should be concerned about regarding verbal and nonverbal language for this group to avoid misinterpretations and barriers to communication?
• How do people of different cultures seek connections and establish relationships using social media?
• Does technology allow you to develop trust for team building?
• How would you manage potential conflict arising from the cultural differences among the project team?