CSE 100 Week 3
18 flashcards
- System
- Set of elements interactin for function or purpose
- Stock
- Any quantifiable variable
- Inflow
- Increases stock
- Outflow
- Decreases stock
- Closed loop
- Chain connecting stock back to self
- Reinforcing feedback
- Loop of exponential growth
- Balancing feedback
- Loop countering/balancing increase/decrease of stock
- Boundary statement
- Defines focus of systems map
- Leverage points
- Opportunities for change in systems map
- Events
- Action, part of series of actions
- Pattern
- Recurring events
- Structure
- Policy making action happen, possible
- Mental model
- Underlying belief causing action
- Elements
- Aspects of a system (ex. football players in a game)
- Interconnection
- Connections and signals between elements
- Function of systems
- Deduced from beaviour
- Stock
- Foundation of system, quantifiable or observable
- Feedback loop
- Loop of stocks and elements