Behavioral and Social Sciences
Abstract Students in all of America still socially segregate. They do this for multiple reasons ranging from parental influence and comfort zones. Students that are not forced to interact wi…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Determine at what age group brain interference is least and most prominent when concentrating in a given task (e.g., saying color vs reading word). Methods/Materials Make th…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Examination of teaching methods and learning styles is becoming increasingly important for educators as we move to a technological information age. A 2007 survey conducted by Indiana Univers…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The present research whose theme focuses on the structure of achieving in our sample group (ten classmates from the different grades ) of the school "Carlos Monsivais" to reach their goals,…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Hypothesis: Suggested memory therapy will reduce psychological inflexibility more than the current therapy (ACT) as measured by the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ2) Suggested Memor…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Our initial study examined the effectiveness of therapeutic breathing on brainwave testing. We decided to apply the technique of diaphragmatic breathing in combination with…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals in my project, I wanted to test if there was a bias between real and powdered food because of how food is advertised and viewed in the media and people's view's on food that…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The Black Plague spread through Europe in the middle of the 14th century, annihilating, within a few years, half of the population of the continent. Contemporary scholars view the Plague as…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this study was to test the cognitive function of 70-85-year old women with Type 2 diabetes compared to those without diabetes. Methods/Materials I recruited a to…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
First Award
Adolescents are more likely to engage in risky, impulsive, and thrill-seeking behaviors. Research shows that one key reason for this is that the adolescent period is a time of ongoing brain…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this research was to discover if color preference has a direct impact on the ability of rapid math recall. 140 students took 6 tests on different colors of paper, with one of…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
In essentially all organisms, aggression is a behavior that provides not only benefits, such as access to resources and mates, but also risks such as injury. While research has identified ne…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project used a custom-built online survey tool to compare the readability of fonts designed for use on highway signs around the world under blurred conditions. The survey tool presented…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
This study investigated how paper (PRM), electronic (ERM), and audio-electronic (AERM) reading modalities affected reading comprehension in adults age 60 and older. It was hypothesized that…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
By determining and analyzing the factors that impact an eyewitness's accuracy, the risk for inaccuracy can be estimated. This study elaborates on two previous studies assessing the effects o…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine if musical experience and time had any impact on people#s abilities to correctly match a pitch with their voice. Methods/Ma…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Traumatic brain injury (TBI), whether mild, moderate or severe, can alter one’s everyday life. One of the major foci of initial treatment after TBI is the design and implementation of interv…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to test the adoptability of animals based on their assigned name. Methods/Materials I have talked to many shelter officials to see what kinds of n…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to further understand the impacts that growing up multilingual has on an individual's way of thinking, problem-solving, and memory. To test this question 20…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The transition from crawling to walking is a crowning achievement in infancy, and typically studied as a series of motor skills. Walking independently opens up a world of possibilities, allo…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine whether memory is better if people are multitasking or not. Methods/Materials Materials: Recording of article on phone, notebook…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
More than six million crashes were reported by the police in 2015. Almost thirty percent of the accidents in the U.S. are rear end collisions. Collisions from the rear are not only dangerous…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Current research indicates rates of depression and anxiety among adolescents, youth ages 13-19, have increased by 70 percent in the past 25 years. Adolescents are repeatedly…
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
Abstract The purpose of this research project is to determine if the Zeigarnik Effect can have any significant effect on the educational performance of children. I hypothesized that, if I co…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of the project was to determine whether there is a link between the Visual Motor abilities of learners at pre-school and school performance later at high school, specifically in…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The object of this experiment is to determine whether a subject's memory of an event can be altered by framing questions given after the event has occurred. The specific goa…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Decision-making is affected by many factors, including the level of morality in decision making. Recently, a relationship between unethical decisions and time-of-day (TOD) was demonstrated.…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to discover whether or not age and gender affects middle schoolers moral decisions. Methods/Materials Google survey, notebook, stopwatch or…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Basically, “The Moral Sentence” is a survey where tests subject compared two people with varying descriptions of their wealth and moral behavior. From that, the test subjects had to decide w…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to find out which color makes a visual search the easiest and most difficult for each gender. Methods/Materials 11 sheets of computer paper,…