Browse 82 real Behavioural and Social Sciences projects entered in 2008, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The first objective of my science fair project was to see whether visual learners, kinesthetic learners, or auditory leaners could remember details better. The second object…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to test the hypothesis that children with ADHD have a better memory when the period of memorization is short. Methods/Materials Gather and assemble six larg…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Slender models and their effect on society has been a hot topic in the media and fashion world lately. The media claims that slender models in fashion negatively effect soci…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I wanted to know if taste preferences of children change when they become adults. My next question was if children of parents who ate, and now serve certain foods to their c…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to test if one's ability to read would interfere with their capability to differentiate between the written word and the color of that word…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective is to see why some groups are affected by suggestion and others are not. My goal is to figure out why certain groups are more easily persuaded to see something…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals As technology advances, intercultural communication is increasing in importance. Human beings have a natural tendency to stereotype foreigners and their cultures, but these…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project asks the question #Does playing with Legos every day improve boys# math scores?# Methods/Materials Ten fifth grade boys were selected from two different classes…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals To determine the efficiency of automobile use in the area surrounding Carlmont High School, based on length, distance, and consolidation of trips, frequent times of day for…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to see if and how goal setting and encouragement affect a competitive swimmers race. Methods/Materials 266 swimmers were randomly selected at two swim meets…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The Purpose of the experiment is to determine whether it was reasonable for California to pass a law requiring a hands-free cell phone headset for calls while driving a car.…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine if the color of the printed word has any affect on a person's ability to remember it. I believe that it will. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To discover how age affects the way or amount a person is affected by stroop effect, and if people are physically or verbally faster. Methods/Materials Problem Statement: Ho…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals In this project, my objective was to discover whether or not color affects appetite. Methods/Materials In order to meet this objective, I conducted my experiment in a way th…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To study and determine which is the best test taking method- to listen to music through a CD/ Mp3 player, or to have a quiet atmosphere? Methods/Materials All students were…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals For my science fair I wanted to test how I could make kids eat more healthy foods. My objective was to determine if children would eat more healthy food if it were packaged…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find out if age was a factor in how people adapted. Specifically, I wanted to find out if age affected a person's ability to adapt to a computer mouse that inver…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find out if age, gender, or occupation matter in distinguishing a candy from a non-edible (medication, rock, Lego, mothball). I hypothesized that the old…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine if males and females had a distinct color preference and whether males would predominately prefer blue and females pink. We hypothesize female…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to see if junior high girls generally choose a specific stall when entering a bathroom. Methods/Materials Observe and tally the number of ju…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My goal was to understand if left brained people perceive optical illusions differently than right brained people. Methods/Materials 30 subjects of different ages and gender…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine if doodling could help a person improve their attention level while listening to a classroom lesson. Methods/Materials For this study, the materials that were u…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project originally tested the effects of age on relative pitch. I believed that the youngest age group, ages 5-20, would be the most on pitch. However, my project escalat…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to analyze factors involved in the short-term memorization and recall of words. Specifically, I focused on proving a model for word recall I sy…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to see whether certain people have ESP and if the results are positively affected by their belief in ESP. ESP is short for Extra-Sensory Percep…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine if children's fears of on-line predators, child abductions, and school shootings would decrease when the children were presented with the stat…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals About 20% of the English speaking population has a spelling disability. This study was conducted to determine if auditory and verbal pathways in the brain could be used to l…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Certain facial features will affect the way people perceive one#s honesty and I believe Race, Demeanor, Expression, Smile, and Eyes will be shown as the top five most affect…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine the genre of music and the tempo of music that produces the fastest typing speeds in words per minute. Methods/Materials First s…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project#s purpose is to explore the components of speech perception, to answer the question #What do humans actually hear when they listen to speech.# This project was…