Browse 84 real Behavioural and Social Sciences projects entered in 2004, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2004
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to find out which child, born into an immediate family, has the highest GPA. Methods/Materials There were three materials need in my experiment: a. A survey…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Introduction Statement of Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine whether children with dyslexia are able to perform a task that does not require reading or writi…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals To see which gender is more willing to break the law through a political survey Methods/Materials . 20 boys and 20 girls . 40 copies of a survey . pen/pencil I first created…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project was conducted to determine the effects of suggestions on eyewitness reports. Methods/Materials Sixty subjects were used, twenty in each of three conditions (N=6…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective is to find out what style of music has the most calming effect on a person with autism. My brother, who has autism, can get very wild and upset, and I want to k…
CSEF · 2004
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine if kids prefer national brand foods over store brand foods and if they are influenced more by package appearance, food appearance, or taste. Met…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals In the Ponzo illusion, the angle of converging lines in the background creates apparent depth through linear perspective, causing people to see two equal, horizontal lines i…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine the role color plays in children#s ability to identify the flavors of beverages. I hypothesize that when children are presen…
CSEF · 2004
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Will young children be able to tell the difference between some candy and medicine, and therefore be at risk of poison or overdose? Purpose: A lot of medicine looks just lik…
CSEF · 2004
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The question asked in this study was, #Will people claim various medical complaints from a phantom environmental exposure?# Phantom risk is when people feel or claim various…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my study was to determine which method of speech was better understood by the "average" person: electronic-larynx (EL) or tracheoesophageal prosthesis (TE) sp…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals To determine if elementary aged boys or girls have better eye-hand reflexes. Methods/Materials I would use a ruler marked with milliseconds per 1.27cm (half inch), drop it,…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Cell phones are widely used everywhere. Many people are concerned about people getting into accidents while driving using cell phones. Some web research shows that accidents…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to learn whether the color of a mouse#s environment has an effect on the amount of food the mouse consumes. The purpose of this experiment is to learn if th…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project tested the short-term visual memory of children at the elementary school level. The purpose of this experiment was to determine how well children recall color o…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if the color of print effects the ability to comprehend and retain the material. Methods/Materials Three passages, from the same book to ensure…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The American public is bombarded with information from a variety of sources, including newpapers magazines, television, and radio. The media tends to report a story with suc…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine whether children are beginning to develop a sense of conservation of liquid during the age range of 3, 4 and 5 years. Methods/M…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Reading and writing is an important part of daily life, especially for a student. It is unclear whether difference in font size affects readability and comprehension. This e…
CSEF · 2004
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project was the study of how ones birth order affects ones personality traits, or ones tendency to do particular things. My hypothesis was that birth order does have an…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to figure out if cell phone usage by a vehicle's driver affects his or her reaction time, thus impairing driver performance and compromising…
CSEF · 2004
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to find out if the gender of a person plays a role in his or her color preference between the colors blue, yellow, or red. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if athletic participation in sports which reward good depth perception improves depth perception. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtain…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The researcher#s project entitled #Does Sentence Structure Affect the Ability to Decipher Words?# was done to learn and understand more about reading and the way the mind wo…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if illustrations improve listening comprehension of children in Kindergarten through Fifth grade. My hypothesis is that illu…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals For my science experiment, I chose to pursue the topic of studying humans# learning strengths. I wanted to see that if I asked what type of learner people thought they were…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine whether people#s belief about what is expected of them affects their performance on a test. Specifically, I was testing the hypothesis that whe…
CSEF · 2004
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to prove when I ask people at a shopping center for the time, I think more people will respond to me differently dressed up as a "tomboy" as opposed to a "yo…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The Stroop Test measures reaction time in identifying the color of the word versus reading the name of the color. The purpose of my science project is to test the Stroop Eff…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment is to determine if males and females think differently. Moreover, it is to test if women can empathize better than men can, and as a result men are better at…