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=**Glossary of systems terms**= View this glossary as a mindmap [|here]

action research actuator analysis attributes awareness balancing feedback bureaucracy boundary capabilities change channel chaos closed system experiment communication communication structures comparator complexity concept control model control-model components Craik's Automaton culture cybernetics cybernetic optimisation delays diagramming difficulty diversity ecolocation ecology ecosystem educational metrics

eight intelligences emergence environment environmental footprint epistemology equifinality equilibrium extinction feedback loop flows of energy, matter and information group think hard complexity hierarchy homeostasis indicator inductive reasoning information information and communication technologies input-process-output interdependence internalised model learning styles learning cycle linear sequential thinking mathematical communication mathematical models mental model mess metaphor mindset model modes (of delivery) MIs and learning styles multiple intelligences negative feedback network object one minded system

open systems oral communication organism overshoot positive feedback process purpose quality of life quantitative (mathematical) model rates receiver reductionist thinking redundancy regulating relationship relational logic resilient resistant roles selective perception sensors shared models sign graph diagrams Singer .M simplification soft complexity stability status stocks subsystems supra-systems survival of the fittest synthesis system dynamics system dynamics diagrams systemic awareness

syst​em performance system systematic systemic systems thinking technique thinking trap tipping point transmitter unit of measurement variables verbal model viability visual communication visual model written communication