Independent Component 1

LITERAL
a. I, Sabrina Colin, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
b. Bloom, Floyd. A. Nelson, Charles. Lazerson, Arlyne. "Brain, Mind, and Behavior: Third Edition." Worth Publishers, 2001. Print.
c. My college class at Cal Poly was every Wednesday from 6:00pm-9:50pm, beginning on October 2, 2013 and ending on December 11, 2013.

This was a psychology class that focused on how the brain works, how it is related to our mind and bevaior, and what happens when the brain is damaged or diseased.     

INTERPRETIVE 

Specifically, Week 8 strongly related to my International Business topic. Chapter 8  focused on emotions and how they affect an individual socially. In business, or inevitably in any career, stress is bound to be felt. Although, it isn't always a bad thing. Challenges and changes, which usually causes stress, provides opportunities for developing new skills and strengths. An experiment was conducting using mice, exposing them to different levels of electric shocks which represent stress. The mice that were exposed to the mild stresses were able to tolerate more stressful events than those that were not exposed. This is a good example of  qualities required in business and situations that will be faced. 

APPLIED

At the end of the semester, as a final, we were made to put together a 4 page paper based on book of our choice from a suggested list. I chose to base my paper on Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain and how it changed the World written by Carl Zimmer. This book was based on the different ways people from all over the world viewed the mind and soul based on religions and cultures. It gave a deeper understanding of just how diverse the world really is and how important it is to be familiar with those differences, especially in International Business.