Positive Feedback Mechanisms

question 40

Multiple Choice

Positive feedback mechanisms:

• A) are few in a normal healthy individual.
• B) are used to amplify the effect or response of a system.
• C) sometimes can create a deviation from homeostasis that leads to death.
• D) cause the deviation from normal to become even more pronounced.
• E) All of these are true.

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Definitions:

Self-report Measure

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