Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal was to discover which age group, Children, Teenagers or Adults would be most effected by propaganda. Methods/Materials I wrote a survey with nine questions pertainin…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I tested the effects of video games on an elemetary student's ability to concentrate. My hypothesis was that of five different categories of video games, the "action" catego…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals For my project I wanted to see how much age affects one's reaction time, and to see if there was a certain point in one's life at which reaction time starts to dramatically…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I have noticed that red lights are used as signals to stop immediately. You see red lights on fire engines, police cars and other emergency vehicles as they signal people of…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals To determine who has superior short term memory, boys or girls between the ages of 11 to 14. Methods/Materials I first designing the short-term memory test devised of 20 ran…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our goal was to find out if right-handed children wrote more legibly than left-handed children. Methods/Materials We tested a total of 292 students aged 8-11 years using a t…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this research study is to correlate caffeine use to self-reported aggressive driving habits typical of road rage behavior. Methods/Materials One hundred and…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The problem the experimenter would like to solve is whether children or adults learn a second language faster in controlled conditions. It was always thought that children a…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine whether similar or alternating patterns take precedence over the subject's shape or color primary perception. I hypothesized…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Orangutans and siamangs live in the same forest levels of the Sumatran rainforests, yet little is known about their interactions with each other and most of what is known is…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn what elements of nature and human activities have an affect on the speed people drive and in what ways. Methods/Materials I used a radar gun to mea…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals For this science fair project, this young researcher wanted to conduct an experiment that studied spatial reasoning abilities and how these abilities can be related to chess…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals We tested to see if a person#s learning modality (style)#visual (V), auditory (A), kinesthetic (K)#affects their spelling scores. We did research at the USC library and foun…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine the quit smoking method or product that had the greatest success rate, and which methods or products had a dominant failure. Thi…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find out if 7th graders at my school are more stressed about academics, personal life, or current events. Methods/Materials The first thing I did was to do resea…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal for the project is to find a solution to stress. I compared the effects of Yogic relaxation (Deep Relaxation Technique) to that of Music, and Nap on one#s Blood Pre…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Subjective contours are nonexistent lines that can be perceived. My problem was to find the maximum percentage of homogeneous white area over the total area of one side of a…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Target Training is a training method used on dolphins and I wanted to see if it would work on dogs too. The goal of the training was to get the dogs to touch their nose to t…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Due to psychological implications, one would tend to assume that there are vast differences in the views/perspectives of individuals, shaped by external influences such as r…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose was to investigate how performance in an auditory memory task is affected by visual and auditory distractions Methods/Materials A random series of letters was re…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine the visual process predominantly used by adult readers. Methods/Materials Five poems by Pablo Neruda were selected and translated from Spanish…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I was trying to show that because males are right brain dominant and females are left brain dominant, gender will effect how people remember. Methods/Materials 1. picked 15…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals It is well-known that you can remember a set of words or ideas better by making up a story around them. My objective was to test the hypothesis that illustrated stories help…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to determine if the perception of time changes depending on what a person is doing and whether or not they perceive the activity as fun. My hyp…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine if conditioning, a process usually believed to require though, could be done on organisms with no cognitive ability. Conditio…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to see if color can effect how far you can see. Methods/Materials 150 subjects were taken from a middle school (ages 12-14), and taken outsid…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Determine the effects, both short and long-term, of Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome on an otherwise healthy, athletic twelve year-old patient. I am not sure her, my, life…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if nearsighted and farsighted people perceive hidden 3-D images differently. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtained from 78 people. Th…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals In this experiment, our objective was to determine how different adolescent populations recognize specific emotions at varying intensities. Methods/Materials To test this, w…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals We observed the effect of age and gender on an individual's performance on the the Stroop Color and Word Test Methods/Materials In our experiment, we tested four different a…