Feedback Loops

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Receptor

The component that monitors a controlled condition and receives the stimulus (usually a nerve)

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Control Center

The component that determines the next action or decides what to do with the original stimulus (makes sense of the stimulus).

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Effector

The component that receives directions from the control center and then produces a response

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Negative Feedback Facts

-Process by which an original stimulus is reversed. -Most common type of feedback

-Used for conditions/processes that occur often

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Positive Feedback Facts

-Process by which the original stimulus is amplified

-Either increases an original stimulus even more, or decreases it even more -Is not happening all the time, only in unusual conditions

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Example of Negative Feedback

body temperature or blood sugar

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Example of Positive Feedback

Childbirth, blood clotting, and lactating

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Homeostasis

Maintaining the internal environment