CSEF · 2010
Music in Work
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see whether or not different genres of music had an effect on a person's work accuracy and work efficiency Methods/Materials First, give the person a wor…
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CSEF · 2010
Oh Say Can You See: Inattentional Blindness in Traffic Situations
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Inattentional Blindness is the inability to see something in plain view. Many times, after an accident, drivers will say that they never saw the unexpected object they colli…
CSEF · 2010
Oh So Subliminal
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objectiive of our project is to see weather or not teenagers are influenced by subliminal messages. Methods/Materials 100 teenage test subjects, were asked to pick a dri…
CSEF · 2010
Perception vs. Reality: Is Your Teen Driving You Crazy?
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Teen auto accidents are among the top killers of teenagers today. Teenagers seem unaware of the reasons why their peers and/or they themselves crash frequently. Whether or n…
CSEF · 2010
Pharmaceutical Safety: Risk, Perception, and Drug Adherence
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals In 1996, Congress passed a law stating that medications must be accompanied by "meaningful" written information. Patients' perception of a drug's risk can determine whether…
CSEF · 2010
Pinch Me. Am I Dreaming?
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals All humans require sleep, but do all humans dream while sleeping? Research shows that the longer one sleeps the more REM sleep they obtain. REM is the stage when most dreams…
CSEF · 2010
Product Sampling
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine if product sampling influences consumer purchasing. My goal throughout this experiment was to prove my hypothesis: sampling will…
CSEF · 2010
Right Brain, Left Brain, and the Stroop Effect Test
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to determine whether being right- or left-brained affects performance on the Stroop Effect Test. The Stroop Effect Test consists of a list of color names p…
CSEF · 2010
Speeding in Residential Areas
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The safety of child pedestrians, both walking to school and playing in the street, is threatened by speeding drivers. My project is designed around this question, "Does any…
CSEF · 2010
The Alleviation of Anxiety as a Result of Attention Training
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals It has been scientifically proven that attention training alleviates socially anxious individuals with generalized anxiety disorder. I considered the effect of attention tra…
CSEF · 2010
The Bystander Effect: In Which Grade Level Is It Worst?
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This study seeks to compare in which grade level - elementary, middle school, or high school is the Bystander Effect in its worst given that a choreographed argument/ fight…
CSEF · 2010
The Effect of Chewing Gum on Concentration and Short Term Memory Ability
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I craved to discover whether chewing gum actually had any effect on short-term memory or concentration ability. Methods/Materials For my experiment subjects played a simple…
CSEF · 2010
The Effects of Classical and Rock Music on Memory
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To see if listening to Classical music helps improve memory and if hard rock music will be disruptive to learning and memory. To test this, I used a mouse model. Methods/Mat…
CSEF · 2010
The Effects of Multitasking on Human Memory
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals More and more people multitask or perform more than one task at a time thinking it would make them more efficient. It made me wonder, " Does multitasking really save time? D…
CSEF · 2010
The Fun Factor
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine if adding a fun consequence to returning carts to the cart corral would increase the number of carts returned by store customers. Methods/Mate…
CSEF · 2010
The Greatest Mind (Adult Version)
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment is to see if men and women see different things in abstract pictures. It is also to see which of these genders agree with suggested answers more…
CSEF · 2010
The Impact of Eye Dominance on the Interpretation of Optical Illusions
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This study analyzes the impact of people's eye dominance on their perception of optical illusions. This study is intended to answer the question, "Do people with a dominant…
CSEF · 2010
The Relationship Between the Approximate Number System and Formal Mathematics
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to find if there is a relationship between the approximate number system (the ability to tell more from less without counting) and forma…
CSEF · 2010
The Six Secluded Smarts
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective is to discover whether the intelligence type of high school students gradually narrows into the scope of only mathematical and linguistic intelligences. Method…
CSEF · 2010
The Study of the Relationship Between Solar Flux and the Stock Market
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to find a correlation between two variables, solar flux and the stock market, and see if the correlation was consistant and if it was invers…
CSEF · 2010
To Lie or Not to Lie: That Is the Question
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our intention is to analyze the accuracy and reliability of facial/speech indications and response latency versus a polygraph machine when a subject is forced to lie under j…
CSEF · 2010
To Remember, or Not to Remember, That Is the Question
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment is to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of cognitive training aimed at improving memory functioning for people in the mild to moderate stages…
CSEF · 2010
TruantToday
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My project, TruantToday, is a website for schools that allows them to use text messages and emails to contact parents in realtime when a student is marked truant. The websit…
CSEF · 2010
Warped Words and the Stroop Effect
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to reduce or eliminate the Stroop Effect. My hypothesis was if there are manipulations of words, then it would reduce or eliminate the Stroop E…
CSEF · 2010
Waste Not, Want Not: Can a Simple Sticker Cause People to Go Green?
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals Paper towels are a very wasteful use of natural resources. Even though more paper is used to make newspapers and magazines than paper towels, paper towels cause more landfil…
CSEF · 2010
What Is the Effect of an Authoritative Figure on Different Age Groups?
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to investigate how different age groups would react to an authoritative presenter versus a non-authoritative presenter. When given a speec…
CSEF · 2010
What Is the Effect of Sugar on Memory?
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals 1) Identify the effects of sugar on memory 2) Identify all the effects of sugar Methods/Materials MATERIALS pens, 2 different laminated pictures, 2 different tests regarding…
CSEF · 2010
What's So Funny?
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project looked at how humor in cartoons changes with age for children in 3rd through 8th grades. The goal of this project was to try to understand why kids laugh and what…
CSEF · 2010
What's Your Reaction?
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out if colored paper, as a background, affects the speed of kindergartners' identification of pictures on the paper. Methods/Materials I drew pictur…
CSEF · 2010
When Science Is Sweet: Working with Kids and Marshmallows
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I believe that children's self control level does in fact correlate with test results. If children have the self control to pay attention and listen to the teacher while the…