Browse 63 real Behavioural and Social Sciences projects entered in 2009, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This study is follow-up research from my 2007 science fair study. A primary aim of the current study is to test the extent to which the design of pharmacy medication informa…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment investigates the effects of carbohydrate intake on spatial memory recall. The participants used in the experiment were male and female eleventh and twelfth g…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My hypothesis is that I will find links between certain simple/specific phobias and certain social phobias. There are two main categories of phobias, simple/specific phobias…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine what percentage of teen girls are bullies, bystanders, and victims. My hypothesis was that 60% would be bullies; 30% would be bystanders, and 1…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine how font size affected reading comprehension by fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade readers. Methods/Materials 1. Use Times New Roman font in…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Do people, particularly teens, judge food on image, brand name and associated price with that name, or do they judge it on how it actually tastes? My hypothesis was that the…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to investigate the most effective way to keep children safe and prevent accidents when children are playing on or near streets. I wanted to obs…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to learn if Japanese students could outperform American students in an American mathematics standardized test, and if so, why. Methods/Materi…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals My objectives were to determine (A) how people make decisions when faced with uncertainty and (B) how the framing of a question influences their choices. I expected that tee…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine how the human brain classified superimposed sound waves # by, conventionally thought, differences in frequency, or by my hypothesis, differences…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective for this experiment was to see how many adults were informed about the hazards of plastic containers based on what chemicals they were made from. Methods/Materi…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To find if witnesses are useful during an actual crime scene. Methods/Materials You will need a journal, witnesses, set-up scenes, and a camera(optional). Results The respon…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals For my experiment I tested how different types of reinforcement, namely positive, neutral and negative affects performnace. My test revealed that positive reinforcement affe…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Reading fluency is the ability to read phrases and sentences smoothly and quickly. Young readers need to develop their fluency so they can become better readers. Fluency als…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals In physical education class, I noticed that during our warm-up laps some of the students were not running their hardest. I wanted to think of a better way to do more effecti…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The object of our science project was to determine if attempting two things at once, in this case, taking a simple reading comprehension test while answering multiplication…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Everyone knows the joke about dumb blondes. Are blondes really dumber than non-blondes? I think blondes are at the same intelligence level as any non-blonde person. Methods/…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine which type of breakfast-high protein, high fiber, complex carbohydrates, junk food, or no breakfast (control) - will help students excel in the…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find out which facial features help the most in face recognition. Methods/Materials In the initial procedure, respondents had to remember the names and f…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine how much of an effect, if any, gender has on the perception of time. Methods/Materials A random sampling of 50 high school students was taken,…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My project title is Got Trash? II. My purpose in doing this project was to see if there is more plate waste now or three years ago. I decided to do this experiment, because…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Sadness can be a problem among junior high students. One way to decrease sadness among this group was found in this experiment. The objective of this study was to determine…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals We tried to find out how the mode of taking in information, hearing a story or reading one, affects the student's recollection of the information. We believe that overall, a…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This study examines how volunteering on humanitarian missions affects pre-dental students' attitudes. People who volunteer on humanitarian missions have more intense experie…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to see if an average person, from each age group, brain is effected by either Stroop Effect or Warped Words. Methods/Materials The project was done using a r…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals what are the prime condititons for an individual to react positively to a stranger as measured by the likelyness that the given indavidual will hug a stranger Methods/Materi…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine which presentation is better for learning and retention: textual or graphical? Methods/Materials Take one group and give them five minutes to m…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if music can actually improve short-term memory. My hypothesis is that music in the background of testing will help improve short-term memory.…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal was to see if the appearance and presence of a dog of effect how much, if anything people would donate to the local SPCA. With this knowledge I can help local organi…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The project was designed to test for (and possibly establish) a hypothetical correlation between rotational orientation of a pie graph and the ability to make an accurate es…