Environmental Systems
Reading Prompt: Feedback
A teaching script will introduce positive and negative feedback loops.
After completing this reading prompt, you should be familiar with the key concept of
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You have experienced feedback in daily life and also during your course of study. The following script will introduce this topic with a special focus on the consequences of positive and negative feedback on the state of a system. There are also some exercises included in the script. You are encouraged to solve them before turing the respective pages since the solution is on the backside.
After reading the script, you should have a quite clear idea of feedback loops and how they influence the system. Two guiding questions would be:
Please read Martin (1997) now.
Once you have read the script, formulate the answers to the above questions and keep them in mind.
After completing this reading prompt, you should be familiar with the key concept of
- positive feedback loops,
- negative feedback loops.
Texts you need for this reading prompt:
You have experienced feedback in daily life and also during your course of study. The following script will introduce this topic with a special focus on the consequences of positive and negative feedback on the state of a system. There are also some exercises included in the script. You are encouraged to solve them before turing the respective pages since the solution is on the backside.
After reading the script, you should have a quite clear idea of feedback loops and how they influence the system. Two guiding questions would be:
- How does positive feedback reinforce a system's behavior?
- How does negative feedback stabilize a system?
Please read Martin (1997) now.
Once you have read the script, formulate the answers to the above questions and keep them in mind.