Hunger

Today in psychology, we learned about five different steps included in the scientific method. I found the example that Mrs. Perl used to describe the fifth step, operational definitions, to be extremely interesting because in my science class today, we had to come up with an experiment using the scientific method, and my experiment was a lot like the example she gave. I chose to focus on the topic of hunger, which I tested out by measuring how many times my stomach growled during the day depending on whether or not I had a snack in between breakfast and lunch. This is why I found Mrs. Perl's example kind of funny when she explained that we need to define something like hunger by either hearing our stomach's growling or by saying that we feel hungry. I was able to relate the information that I had previously learned in science to what we were being taught in psychology. I just thought this was an interesting comparison between the two classes!