Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if human beings tend to walk in a circle while blindfolded and, if so, whether certain factors (such as gender, age and right- or left-handedne…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I chose to investigate whether male or female drivers will respect a stop sign with a witness present. I found this interesting because in neighborhoods so many people do no…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine whether teenagers can accurately measure one USDA recommended serving size of milk and cereal. Methods/Materials Collected Informed Consent Forms…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The hypothesis of this experiment is if a person is not able to smell, then they will not identify food because the cerebral cortex will not recognize the substance. Methods…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal for this project was to test the affects of media/commercials on 12 and 13 year old kids. Media is a huge part of the average teen and preteens life. We spend most o…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine how the gender of a subject affects the way he or she responds to human-like androids that can be categorized as belonging to the Uncanny Valle…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This project was to determine if there is a correlation between the dominance of one side of the brain, and the trait of having an extroverted or introverted personality. It…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Distractions have caused many car crashes because people cannot react fast enough when distracted. The objective of this study is to determine if age and distractions affect…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to discover if average people, out of three age groups (adolescent, young adult and middle aged adult), contained the ability to predict a p…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Age progression is known to have adverse affects on the brain, but does it affect all aspects of the brain? With this contemplation, I sought to determine the effect of age…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Based on the assumption that being overweight is related to lack of knowledge about caloric needs, the purpose of this study was to examine if weight status was related to a…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Hypothesis 1: Consumers of caffeine will have higher test performance after consuming the beverage than their test performance before consuming the beverage. Hypothesis 2: P…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To determine if the number of junior high students willing to accept a Facebook friend request from a random stranger can be increased by listing a certain gender or profile…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to investigate the effect of sleep deprivation on students' ability to discern facial emotions. Previous research has shown contradictory res…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment, based on the Dual-Coding theory, was designed to investigate the effects of different learning modalities such as auditory, visual, and visual with auditory…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I have always doodled in class. I came across an article about a test involving adults, half of whom were told to doodle while listening to a telephone conversation. Later,…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Second Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see if there is a correlation between the growth mindset (defined here as perceiving intelligence as a changeable attribute, especially by effort--contra…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This is a study designed to investigate the effects of the presence of representative information on the false consensus effect as measured by the mean score received on a s…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals How accurate is eye witness testimony. The hypothesis for this experiment is that eyewitness testimony will not be accurate because memory is not an exact science. Methods/M…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The project objective was to determine if the smell of strong, pleasant odors can improve the ability of a subject to memorize and recall information through the stimulation…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals To determine whether there is a connection between the human factor in password composition/usage and the relative entropy of the password. Methods/Materials No tangible mat…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Hypothesis: If 3-5 year old boys & girls participate in the 3 stereotype exercises, then it will be found that the majority have preconceived ideas of thin, average, and ove…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal was to determine whether a fencer's location on the fencing strip effected how many touches they score. I believe that a fencer will score more touches when pushing…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the project was to determine if fifth and sixth grade students display gender stereotypes towards babies and teachers. Methods/Materials Study 1 examined gend…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to discover which presentation of a school hot lunch, whether the lunch was on a plate, a tray or in the pre-packaging, would be more ap…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The delay in recognizing words printed in various colours is a well-documented phenomenon known as the Stroop effect. This particular anomaly is more prevalent with words to…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This study tested if gender, piano playing, use of T.V. use of the computer, or use of texting affects how a person multitasks. Methods/Materials Each test subject filled ou…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective to my project is to determine if students exposed to positive subliminal messages in their instruction will show a higher growth in scores on timed multiplicat…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to discover if Natural Environment Teaching (NET) is more effective than traditional Discrete Trial Teaching (DTT) methods used to educate ch…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our goal is to possibly get food companies to change the color of the food. For example a potato chip in the color of something unappealing and broccoli in the colors of rai…