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Homeostasis
Chapter 1 physiology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is homeostasis? | The body's ability to maintain a stable internal environment and function properly despite external changes |
| What are the two feedback loops? | Negative and Positive |
| Which feedback loop is stimulatory? | Positive feedback loop |
| What is efferent? | signal traveling away from center |
| what is the end result of a negative feedback loop? | to rebalance the beginning setpoint |
| what is afferent? | signal traveling toward center |
| what is the integrator? | the control center where it receives input from sensors |
| what is the effectors role? | carries out the response to stimulus |
| what is feed forward? | information flowing ahead to another process to trigger a change in anticipation of an event that will follow |
| what are the basic components of homeostasis? | sensor mechanism, integrator, effector, feedback |