Question

Feedback loops (VERY IMPORTANT). Label the following as a positive or negative feedback loop: a. The baby boom resulted in lots of children which meant the US population grew. Those children grew up and had more babies making the population continue to grow – positive b. Cole takes a nap and gets a sticker when he gets up (yay stickers!) so the next day he takes a nap so that he will get another sticker – negative c. Cole does not take a nap and has to go to bed 1 hour earlier meaning he misses out on taking a walk, so the next day he takes a nap so he can stay up for the walk – negative d. Cole throws a temper tantrum, which means that Mommy stops doing whatever she is doing and he gets to sit in Mommy’s lap and "talk" about what he did wrong and then Daddy "talks" to him about it later that night, so he keeps throwing temper tantrums so he can have Mommy and Daddy’s undivided attention – e. Air conditioner and thermostat – negative f. Compounding interest – positive

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

A- positive feedback;

B- positive feedback;

C- negative feedback;

D- positive feedback;

E- negative feedback;

F- positive feedback

A positive feedback  increases the stimulus that generates imbalance, making the values ​​increasingly different from the standard.

A negative feedback is what occurs most in the body, being considered by many authors the primary mechanism for the maintenance of homeostasis. It causes a negative change from the initial change, that is, a stimulus contrary to the one that led to the imbalance.