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Feedback is when the body reacts in the same direction as a stimulus. Negative Positive?

Feedback can be both negative and positive. Negative feedback occurs when the body's response counteracts the stimulus, helping to maintain homeostasis. Positive feedback amplifies the stimulus, leading to a larger response.


Are positive feedback and negative feedback both components of homeostasis?

Yes, both positive and negative feedback are components of homeostasis. Negative feedback helps to maintain a stable internal environment by reversing any deviations from a set point, while positive feedback amplifies the response to a stimulus, often to achieve a specific outcome in the body. Both types of feedback work together to regulate physiological processes and maintain balance within the body.


Compare and contrast negative and positive feedback mechanisms and give some examples?

Negative feedback mechanisms work to maintain homeostasis by reversing a change in a system, while positive feedback mechanisms amplify and reinforce a change. An example of negative feedback is the regulation of body temperature – if body temperature rises, mechanisms kick in to lower it; whereas in positive feedback, childbirth contractions become stronger and more frequent to facilitate delivery.


Which type of feeback is more common in the body?

Positive feedback loops are less common in the body compared to negative feedback loops. Negative feedback helps maintain homeostasis by reversing a change back to its set point, while positive feedback magnifies a change away from the set point. Examples of positive feedback in the body include childbirth and blood clotting.


Is urinating a negative feedback?

Urinating is not an example of negative feedback. Negative feedback is a process that uses the result of a process to regulate the process itself, maintaining homeostasis. Urinating is a normal physiological process to eliminate waste and regulate fluid balance in the body.

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Definition of negative feedback and positive feedback?

A: Any feedback that contributes to the input is positive feedback any feedback that subtract from the input is negative feedback


Is contractions during childbirth positive or negative feedback?

Positive feedback.


Feedback is when the body reacts in the same direction as a stimulus. Negative Positive?

Feedback can be both negative and positive. Negative feedback occurs when the body's response counteracts the stimulus, helping to maintain homeostasis. Positive feedback amplifies the stimulus, leading to a larger response.


Describing what is feedback system and differentiating between positive and negative feedback?

when a woman's contractions speed up during labor is negative or positive feedback


What are the two types of feedback mechanisms?

they are positive feedback and increase activity negative feedback.


What are the example of negative and positive feedback in geography?

A negative feedback would be if the planet heats up, the glaciers will melt, lowering the albedo effect of the snow, and in turn causing the planet to heat up more That is positive feedback, not negative. Positive feedback enhances the initial stimulus, negative feedback reverses the initial stimulus. The planet starts by heating up, then heats up even more, which is positive feedback.


What are the feedback mechanisms that regulate hormone levels in the body?

Positive and negative feedback


What are the two feedbacks of Mechanisms?

they are positive feedback and increase activity negative feedback.


Is the thirst sensation when you get dehydrated an example of a negative or a positive feedback?

negative


Explain would the formation of a goiter be positive or negative feedback?

Negative.


Is blood calcium level a positive or negative feedback mechanism?

positive