AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Feedback loops are important because they allow living organisms to maintain homeostasis. Homeostasis is the mechanism that enables us to keep our internal environment relatively constant – not too hot, or too cold, not too hungry or tired.

Detailed explanation-2: -Feedback Loops can enhance or buffer changes that occur in a system. Positive feedback loops enhance or amplify changes; this tends to move a system away from its equilibrium state and make it more unstable.

Detailed explanation-3: -Homeostasis typically involves negative feedback loops that counteract changes of various properties from their target values, known as set points. In contrast to negative feedback loops, positive feedback loops amplify their initiating stimuli, in other words, they move the system away from its starting state.