Browse 81 real Behavioural and Social Sciences projects entered in 2002, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Teachers are concerned about covering a large volume of curriculum in a short time. Since many students have trouble understanding what they read, some teachers and parents…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals In this experiment, whether or not the power of suggestion affects people#s decision making was tested. Specifically, the experiment sought to see if anchoring (a technique…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Last year my pack weighed a ton. I had to carry my books around to all my classes 'cause going to my locker between classes was unrealistic. I soon got back pains. This scho…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if color influences people's choices in choosing an item when given a favorable color and another favorable trait. I believe that a person will c…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals What effect does being scared have on your blood-pressure? My objective was to see whether my mom's blood-pressure would go up during scary moments in movies. Being scared i…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The aim of this project was to find the social and economic effects on Hungary of the country's varying regimes and policies of the past twenty years. I hypothesized that th…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine whether high school seniors have better short-term memory when presented with stimuli in an exclusively visual presentation or in…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to see if and how color affected short-term memory of two syllable nouns. Methods/Materials I obtained consent from 105 subjects and gave them…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our objective is to find out which gender is better at estimating object sizes, weight and quantity. Our hypothesis was that females would be able to estimate better than ma…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find out if preferences in visual art have a physiological link to handedness and brain lateralization. Methods/Materials Procedures 1. 20 paintings pick…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Purpose: It is our goal to determine the effects of clutter on memory. We have designed a word test to be given to test subjects to determine the effects of cluttury on memo…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine the most efficient learning method of grades 1, 4, 7, and 9. This can assist teachers in incorporating the abilities of their…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I attempted to duplicate an early experiment of Dr. Ivan Pavlov pertaining to conditioned response. Modern research shows that by associating products with catchy music grea…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether the mental connation of smells correlates with the heart's response to the scents of aldehydes (primarily fruit and flower based) and p…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if Democrats and Republicans recycled their trash at the same rate. My hypothesis was that Democrats would have a higher recycling rate than Repu…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The intent behind this experiment was to determine if human affection alters Mus Musculus's (common house mouse) performance in a maze. My hypothesis stated that mice given…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This experiment tests if the parent-child relationship affects grades. If the relationship does, maybe people can find out what it takes to have a good relationship to raise…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals To determine which dogs respond more to sights and sounds on television. Smaller dogs tend to be smarter, hyperactive and very alert, especially terriers. Larger breeds are…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal is to see if different types of video games influenced different aged children's heart rate. Methods/Materials I took four children, ages 10 - 13, measured their re…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Is the effect of object size (field-of-view) on lateral adaptation in the human visual system the same or different for monochrome (grey scale) and color vision? My objectiv…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of our project was to test and see if subliminal messages have an effect on one's behavior and decisions. Methods/Materials First we had to research the idea a…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To find out wether movie theaters in LA county have the necesary methods in place to prevent children under age from watching movies that are not appropiate for them,due to…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment had the unequivocal goal of examining the level of evolutionary teaching at Chaminade College Preparatory School. Equally important is to examine opinion reg…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if a person's reading comprehension is greater when reading written material on paper or from a computer screen. I believe tha…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project was to determine if people respond more quickly to visual or auditory stimuli. My hypothesis was that people would respond faster to a tone…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our goal is to reduce the fear of our subjects by exposing them to their fear of archnophobia. Methods/Materials A video of spiders A book full with pictures of spiders. A d…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I created this experiment to observe the difference between male and female's fears, where they originated from, and who is psychologically stronger in a sense of facing the…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Question: Which gender, grade, and ethnicity have the most stress? In school we found out that the lots of students had stress and we wanted to see which group had the most…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine the effect of positive or negative feedback by a group of peers, on performance. The feedback (support) is of a personal nature, and unrelated to…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if your sight has an effect on your taste. Methods/Materials I selected 30 volunteers that liked the taste of ketchup and were not color blind…