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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals One of the USAs most common health problems is obesity, and the factors that cause obesity are poorly understood. The objective of this study is to identify factors that con…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The researcher wants to test adults on a math and science test and be able to decipher the results and their meanings. Methods/Materials Binder No. 2 Pencil Microsoft Excel…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if yawning was contagious in the sense that the yawn passes form one individual to another. The scientist originally believed…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project measured the reliability of eyewitnesses and answered the question: Will you get more accurate information from eyewitnesses if you ask them individually about wh…