CSEF · 2008
Sporty Students
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Determine if students will benefit from playing sports and their GPA#s will be higher than students who do not play sports. I will also determine if boys or girls will have…
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CSEF · 2008
Spreading the Word: Simulating the Effect of Population Influence Structure on the Propagation of Ideas
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals Though the propagation of ideas in human society is among our species' most unique and valuable characteristics, little quantitative attention has been devoted to understand…
CSEF · 2008
Subliminal Messaging: Did You See That?
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals In my experiment, I tested my hypothesis that a subliminal message would not be successfully entered into the conscious mind of a viewer unless the viewer had access to the…
CSEF · 2008
Tasty Confusion: The Effect of Color on Taste
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals If 4th and 7th grade students eat vanilla yogurt dyed pink, blue,and yellow, then they will guess the flavor that goes with thte color rather than the actual flavor. Methods…
CSEF · 2008
The Correlation between Religious Maturity and Physiological Reaction Time
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Past studies show that religious maturity and various forms of human perception affect the psychological and physiological aspects of human beings. Religious maturity can af…
CSEF · 2008
The Effect of Background Noise on Memory
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine if background noise affects a person#s ability to memorize words. Methods/Materials Empty classroom, ten copies of the three diff…
CSEF · 2008
The Effect of Breakfast Consumption on Test Results
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The effect of ingesting a morning meal was measured quantitatively on mathematic performance. While the subject matter was simple, consisting of elementary arithmetical oper…
CSEF · 2008
The Effect of Multiple Intelligence Strength on School Performance
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The topic for my science fair project is #Which strength of the theory of multiple intelligences contributes to higher school performance?# My project focuses on the 9 diffe…
CSEF · 2008
The Effect of Olfactory Stimulation on Short-Term Memory
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to make study time more efficient by introducing another stimulus, such as scent, during the process of memorization. The original hypothesis sta…
CSEF · 2008
The Effects of Breathing Techniques on Test Anxiety
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals It has been found that various breathing techniques have increased immune system functioning, lowered depression, and changed in metabolism, heart rate, etc, basically comba…
CSEF · 2008
The Effects of Gender on Short-Term Memory
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my science project is to determine if boys or girls have better short-term memory. Methods/Materials 1. Make Observations: I observed through my classes tha…
CSEF · 2008
The Effects of Tempo and Language on Human Focus
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To find how the tempo and spoken lyrics of songs affect a person's cognition. Methods/Materials I had subjects individually try to perform a task while providing task-irrele…
CSEF · 2008
The Fear Factor: What Do You Fear the Most?
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to identify the types of fears people have depending upon their gender and their age less than 21 years or over 21 years. A goal for my project was to demonst…
CSEF · 2008
The Impact of Age and Socioeconomic Status on Childhood Fears
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals Though studies have shown children#s fears correlate with age, little is known of the influence of socioeconomic status (SES) on childhood fears. The purpose of this study w…
CSEF · 2008
The Truth about Childproof
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In doing this experiment we will test young children's capability of opening child proof products in the hopes of discovering if they truly protect today's children. Methods…
CSEF · 2008
This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain on Music
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective in doing this experiment is to determine whether music made from the frequencies of Beta brainwaves will help improve concentration. Methods/Materials The follo…
CSEF · 2008
To Blink or Not to Blink: Does Lying Affect Blinking in Adolescents?
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to discover whether lying affects blinking amounts in adolescents and to see if these amounts differ between genders. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2008
Turn Up the Music, Just Mute the Lyrics
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I wondered whether or not listening to music with lyrics or music without lyrics makes a difference when a person is performing a task. I believed that music with lyrics cau…
CSEF · 2008
Under the Surface: Priming the Subconscious Brain
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine if a person's behavior will change after reading hidden keywords in a scrambled-sentence test. Methods/Materials Using a stopwatch, I secretly t…
CSEF · 2008
Use It or Lose It
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals We want to know if highlighted words will be easier to remember then black and white or underlined. We are doing this project to help kids remember what they study and do be…
CSEF · 2008
Valencia Elementary My Dear Watson: Criminal Identification: Which Is More Accurate, Simultaneous or Sequential Lineup?
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this science project was to determine the most accurate kind of criminal identification lineup, simultaneous or sequential lineup. Methods/Materials A crime…
CSEF · 2008
Violentus Media et Phobos (Violent Media and Fears)
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if watching violent movies or playing violent video games has an affect on sixth grade students' fears. I believe that watching violent movies an…
CSEF · 2008
Visual Memory and Your Life: The Relation of Visual Memory to Drawing, Facial Recognition and Navigation Abilities
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I have poor visual memory and wanted to understand the impact of this on my life. However, when I reviewed the existing research I learned that there is disagreement and lac…
CSEF · 2008
What Affects an Illusion?
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine whether varying the size and color of the inducing circles will affect the perception of the relation in size between the standa…
CSEF · 2008
What Would You Do? A Behavioral Study
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals To study whether or not people in a small town would be more likely to help a stranger by mailing an envelope than people in a large city. To study whether or not people wou…
CSEF · 2008
Who's a Better Learner, Children or Adults?
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find out who is a better learner, children or adults through three phases of chess. Methods/Materials Methods: I created a lesson plan specifically targe…
CSEF · 2008
Yawn Theory: The Effects of Contagious Yawns on Males and Females
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to determine whether yawns were more contagious to males or females. The hypotheses were that yawns would be more contagious to females, and th…
CSEF · 2007
Aaaah! I'm Frustrated: Does Gender Affect Behavioral Responses to Frustration?
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals How does gender affect behavioral responses to frustration? My objective is to record subjects' responses to a frustrating task and analyze gender differences. Backed by cur…
CSEF · 2007
Aging Memory
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Does age affect memory? Methods/Materials Procedure: 1. Test first group, one after another 2. Previously record short video and demonstrate to my subjects 3. Test memory wi…
CSEF · 2007
Aloud or Silently? That Is the...
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to see if students would comprehend things better by reading aloud or by reading silently. Methods/Materials Fifty- six students were teste…