negative feedback
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- noun
- /ˈnɛɡətɪv ˈfiːdbæk/
- Specialized
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retroalimentación negativa
- In engineering, negative feedback helps maintain system stability by counteracting any deviations.
- negative feedback loop
- negative feedback mechanism
- received negative feedback
And a negative feedback loop doesn't mean bad.
- And a negative feedback loop doesn't mean bad.
- And what this is doing is maintaining by negative feedback, a constant source of material.
- If you have motion detection sprinklers and it sprays them with water that foreign that for an event that they're not used to scares them, that's negative feedback.
- And the principle is a so-called negative feedback.
Examples
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Moreover, U.S. officials receive more direct negative feedback if the level they choose is wrong.
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Competitive sport situations are replete with inevitable opportunities to experience negative feedback and perceived performance failure.
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What comes into play is a second kind of process called negative feedback, in which more leads to less.
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Researchers are in less agreement on the impact of positive and negative feedback.
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A common method of noise reduction in gene networks is the use of negative feedback.
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After each set of river trials, participants were again given negative feedback or no feedback.
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Thus, for example, participants who received negative feedback on the first experimental session received no feedback in the second session.
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In nature, stability is maintained by arrays of negative feedback controls.
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When you're the most secure in your role, you can actually hear negative feedback and it just bounces off of you and you can hear it without listening to it.
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Rushall (1983) found that coaches tend to use negative feedback more frequently than positive feedback.
Academic text (1991)
Antonyms
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A process where a small change causes larger changes in a system
How Negative
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'negative' (here meaning reducing or opposing) and 'feedback' (returning output to input) do point toward a compositional meaning of feedback that counteracts the original effect, so there is a clear partial connection. However, many learners will interpret 'negative' as 'bad/critical' and may not predict the technical stabilizing sense without prior exposure, making the interpretation partly but not fully transparent.
Etymology
The term negative feedback comes from the image of part of a system's result being sent back as feedback to push against the first change, the negative action. For example, a thermostat turns the heater down when a room gets too warm, so negative feedback means 'using a system's own output to reduce change and keep things steady'.