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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…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I attempted to show that people with a predominant ethnic heritage (one to two) tend to have fewer fingerprint patterns than people with seceral ethnic heritages (more than…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our project is to find out if one#s skin nerve receptors sensations differ between diabetic#s and non-diabetic#s, females and males, and diabetics that have b…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to decide whether dogs could learn vicariously, that is, if dogs could learn to perform a task correctly faster if they watch another dog perform…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if children and adults see visual images differently. Methods/Materials At first, I showed a variety of images to 21 subjects of different ages. I…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Last year, I defined five singing phenotypes and discovered that impaired relative pitch (not knowing intervals between notes) in a singing test is likely to be inherited as…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Subliminal messages are not widely understood, but they are used in different forms of the media, including advertising. Audio, and visual subliminal messages are the domina…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The experiment was meant to show if you can be predicted where most people would look, or where the eye goes first. Because we read left to right, top to bottom, I predict t…