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CSEF · 2016

Focus: The Effect of Media Multitasking on Memory

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…

CSEF · 2016

Healthy Food or Candy? Which Improves Memory?

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…

CSEF · 2016

Highlight Your Memory

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…

ISEF · 2016

How Does Caffeine Affect Heart Rate?

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Have you ever wondered how a morning coffee is actually working to wake you up? Or what about that pepsi everyday at work? It is often thought that a dose of caffeine will wake you right up,…

CSEF · 2016

How Does Sound Affect Your Body?

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…

CSEF · 2016

Impact of the Power of Suggestion on Recall

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…

CSEF · 2016

Is Smiling Contagious?

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…

CSEF · 2016

Light vs. Sleep

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…

CSEF · 2016

Memories Under the Influence

Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award

Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to find out the effects of the power of suggestion on one#s memory. Methods/Materials After viewing a video of people interacting, particip…

CSEF · 2016

Music and the Induction of Emotions

Behavioral & Social Sciences

Objectives/Goals This study focuses on how listening to film music without viewing the concurrent film may induce similar emotions in the listener. This involved the use of a survey in which…

CSEF · 2016

OTC Drug Use and Abuse by Elderly Adults

Behavioral & Social Sciences

Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to find out if elderly adults in a small temple town in South India self-medicate and the reasons for self-medication. Methods/Materials Duri…

CSEF · 2016

Shaping Your Thoughts

Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award

Objectives/Goals My project is to determine if shape words can interfere with the simple task of naming shapes, I would also be looking for any crucial differences between ages and genders i…

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