Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to change viewers' perceptions of events in a video scene by changing the soundtrack from atonal to melodic tones. Methods/Materials This…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine whether different genres of music affected cognitive performance. Methods/Materials Materials Quantity Description electronic devi…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project, is to find out whether or not college helps basketball players perform better in the NBA. Methods/Materials Computer. Tested 140 NBA players.…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The object of this project was to test the effect of positive (cheering) and negative (booing) affirmations on a person's skill in sports. Methods/Materials The participant…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment aims to determine whether giving children the opportunity to recycle will increase their waste output. This was tested by measuring paper towel usage at a mi…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if people's passwords get more complex with age. Methods/Materials Gathered 3 passwords from each of the 127 different people thr…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I am a gymnast, and I I wondered if as an adolescent gymnast, I might have an easier time learning a new skill due to reaction time when compared to a preadolescent gymnast.…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals In our project we wanted to figure out what would be the best emotional setting for a student to take a test. Many students know they have to memorize information and stay u…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to determine if online or printed textbooks lead to significantly different levels of concentration and comprehension. Methods/Materials To test…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The study is studied the effects of sleep quality on recalling words in an entirely novel language. The impact of demographic details such as gender, race, and age and recal…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to determine if electronic media or paper produced better reading comprehension for current-day eighth graders. Methods/Materials Students we…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective to my science fair project is to find if preverbal infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and adolescents show sympathetic responses for the #Bullying Victims#. Meth…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this exploration is to look at and analyze different patterns present in an individual's profession choice. Methods/Materials Materials : Self-made surveys,…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment aims to discover the differences in the way boys and girls (ages 6-13) and senior citizens (persons 65+) express emotions, including physiological, verbal an…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The emotionally disturbed programs in the Conejo Valley Unified School District have more than doubled in the past four years, so finding the best method in helping students…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to find out how receiving and sending text messages while studying affects a person's ability to recall the studied material. My hypothesis…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to see if people can hear different levels of quality for music subjected to audio compression and different playback devices. There are…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The military is in need of more women recruits; however, they are not projecting enough female interest. As the movement for women in STEM fields grow, so does the need for…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine some of the variables that make up gender stereotypes and whether people's choices can be affected by them. Methods/Materials 10…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Can the types of food we consume while studying and testing improve the outcome of the actual test scores? Which food type proves to improve overall test scores: candy (star…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to discern which color of highlighter enhances memorization. Methods/Materials For my project I typed out three paragraphs similar in length a…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine which of four different ten minute activities will enhance cognitive performance. Methods/Materials Set up 4 cognitive performanc…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I have always been curious about which sounds affect your body or raised your heart rate the most. I thought the more abrupt the sound was, the more your heart rate would in…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine the impact of the Patient-Centered Approach (PCA) intervention tool on women¡#s knowledge of updated national cervical cancer s…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I often find myself buying more than I need, simply based on the price. Through research, I learned that I was being influenced by the decoy effect, a phenomenon in which co…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I have wondered about the power of suggestion ever since I began hearing about cases in which people were convicted of a crime they did not commit due to #eye witness# testi…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our goal is to find out if math level and grade make a correlation with number sequence recall accuracy. If someone were to have a high math level, that means there recall a…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to test if visual cues such as images will improve the comprehension of information when two sentences are spoken at once. Methods/Materials T…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine whether smiling is contagious (to test whether smiling is passed on between people). Methods/Materials Mall, 320 random test subj…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The object of this study was to determine how different colors of light affected you while sleeping. Out of the colors (purple, green, red and white), we believed that the p…