Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine whether children are beginning to develop a sense of conservation of liquid during the age range of 3, 4 and 5 years. Methods/M…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Reading and writing is an important part of daily life, especially for a student. It is unclear whether difference in font size affects readability and comprehension. This e…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project was the study of how ones birth order affects ones personality traits, or ones tendency to do particular things. My hypothesis was that birth order does have an…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to figure out if cell phone usage by a vehicle's driver affects his or her reaction time, thus impairing driver performance and compromising…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to find out if the gender of a person plays a role in his or her color preference between the colors blue, yellow, or red. Methods/Materials…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if athletic participation in sports which reward good depth perception improves depth perception. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtain…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The researcher#s project entitled #Does Sentence Structure Affect the Ability to Decipher Words?# was done to learn and understand more about reading and the way the mind wo…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if illustrations improve listening comprehension of children in Kindergarten through Fifth grade. My hypothesis is that illu…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals For my science experiment, I chose to pursue the topic of studying humans# learning strengths. I wanted to see that if I asked what type of learner people thought they were…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine whether people#s belief about what is expected of them affects their performance on a test. Specifically, I was testing the hypothesis that whe…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to prove when I ask people at a shopping center for the time, I think more people will respond to me differently dressed up as a "tomboy" as opposed to a "yo…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The Stroop Test measures reaction time in identifying the color of the word versus reading the name of the color. The purpose of my science project is to test the Stroop Eff…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment is to determine if males and females think differently. Moreover, it is to test if women can empathize better than men can, and as a result men are better at…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The reason I chose this project was to see if there were any similarities between random number generation and free choice. My experiment is related to mathematics and human…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal is to find out if subliminal messages can effect a person's choice and does it affect gender. Methods/Materials For my expeiment, I needed 50 flash cards, M&M's, a b…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of our project was to determine if cell phone usage, while driving, affects teens' reaction times. Methods/Materials We randomly selected fifteen boys and fift…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to study if classical music affects a child#s performance doing cognitive tasks. Methods/Materials Materials included: CD with Mozart sonata…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to find whether learning modality has an impact on SAT scores, and if so how. Methods/Materials A test was developed in order to identify the…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals To design an intraocular camera for a prosthetic device that can be surgically implanted into the human eye to give people with diseases such as Retinitis Pigmentosa and Mac…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine if there is a strong correlation between a student#s motivation and their achievement at their ability level. Methods/Materials (…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals This study was performed in order to determine if laser fluorescence is a more effective means of detecting occlusal caries, or decay on the tooth's surface, than the standa…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals To determine if left-handed people become more ambidextrous than right-handed people due to their need to adapt to our right-handed world. Methods/Materials Twenty subjects…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective is to find a solution to stress. One of the main causes of high blood pressure today is stress. I am evaluating the effect of the Yogic Technique # Deep Relaxat…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals It is hypothesized that women between the ages of 20-40 will remember the best because they have the most priorities and responsibilities to attend to. Research has shown th…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to learn what my middle school's greatest prejudice is. Methods/Materials Procedures: 1.Research prejudice and get ideas for questions to as…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to discover whether or not retention of information is affected by the period of time between the study of material and sleep. Methods/Materials Fifty-five…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine if men from different ethnicities exhibit a different pace of life, as measured by walking speed in three different areas of dai…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Is a certain color of car more likely to be driven unsafely? The reason I chose speed and stopping patterns was because it could be most objectively measured and it was the…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine: (1) PERCEPTIONS -- (a) if people think OTHERS take longer to leave parking spots when they wait, and (b) if they think THEY themselves take longer to leave whe…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out what promotes the cooperation of four-year-olds in completing a task, praise or a prize. My hypothesis was that praise would be more effective.…