Browse 79 real Behavioural and Social Sciences projects entered in 2013, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to find out if children who are younger that the rest of their classmates being misdiagnosed with ADHD/ADD just because they are more immature…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals People's perceptions can affect their health. For example, perceptions about pain can affect how much pain someone feels. Only 7.6% of teens get the needed 9 to 10 hours of…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that substance abuse and addiction cost American society $559 billion dollars a year in increased health care costs, crime, and…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine if the performance of an altruistic act would positively affect cognitive function and self-esteem. Methods/Materials Consent…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals According to Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, there are two methods of thinking: System 1 (intuitive) and System 2 (rational). When an individual is stressed, they are less a…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To study the behavior of the saltwater fish during feeding time with a simulation of Pavlov's bell both on the open space and isolated chamber in the aquarium. Methods/Mater…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals To determine if there is a relationship between teacher gender and the achievement of female students in secondary science. Methods/Materials My hypothesis states that femal…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals When I began to develop inflammatory acne, my mother insisted on me taking medication to reduce the outbreaks. Initially, I wasn 't very receptive; I did not see the need fo…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My project goal was to determine at what grade level children could distinguish between candy and non-candy items. I believe that by the fourth grade, children will be able…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine to what degree various auditory distractions affect concentration. Additionally, we identified factors, such as gender, aca…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine what type of audio cues would help a person navigate in the absence of visual reference points. Methods/Materials The materials us…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Teenage girls tend to wear a lot of makeup, but does it affect their self esteem? This study hypothesized teen girls with low self esteem wear more makeup. In order to compl…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to test my hypothesis that previous knowledge of chess interferes with a person's ability to play checkers with chess pieces. Methods/Materials Consent was…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals In my project, I decided to test whether or not Piaget's theory applies to children. The method I used to test this understanding was to test whether or not children underst…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals This project's purpose was to determine if clay sculpture can influence, or have an effect on children's human figure drawings. In addition, similarities and differences bet…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see if online banner advertisements were more effective to either men or women, and to what degree. I hypothesized that there would be no difference betw…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment is designed to analyze the effects of numeric and language audio on responses of the brain regarding arithmetic cognitive functions. Hypothesis: If students…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Dreaming has fascinated us all over the ages. Dreaming occurs during REM (rapid eye movement) phase of sleep. There are some neurological diseases which are caused/intensifi…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to explore whether the increased use of text-messaging as a means of communications by my peers might be impacting our ability to effectively read facial ex…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals Since texting came to the U.S. in 1996 it has grown rapidly. It has grown so much that the average teen sends over 3,000 texts a month. Many students text while doing homewo…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals About 70% of the population uses their right ear to listen to a phone call, which lead me to me topic. The purpose of this project was to determine which ear might better re…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to study the recollection rate of false memories using visual prompts and audio prompts as well as compare that rate between boys and gir…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the study was to conclude whether people's "dominant" sense can be determined through tests pitting several frequently-used senses against each other. The stu…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Previous research showed that auditory and visual learning modes are the most effective among Villa Park High School students for memorizing information on a short term basi…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals With the creation of this project, I worked to find how the differences between a positive mindset and a negative mindset, using the variable of speed and accuracy. I wanted…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to find out if and how the heart rate of an athlete affected memory. Methods/Materials For our experiment, we designed three tests to observe the effects o…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to discover if time of day had an effect on performance of eighth graders on a multiplication test. Methods/Materials Two different test…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see if 6th graders can be misled by giving them false information. Methods/Materials Materials: - Paragraph with false information about volcanoes. - Par…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if video games and other distractions ease a person's awareness of pain. Methods/Materials 14 people, ages ranging from 8 to 49, participated i…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To determine whether construal levels (abstract/concrete) affect procrastination. Based on Construal- Level Theory (CLT), I hypothesized that students would perceive a longe…