Author Question: Professor Garcia is studying how cancer patients are coping with their illness by giving them one of ... (Read 34 times)

magmichele12 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Professor Garcia is studying how cancer patients are coping with their illness by giving them one of the following sets of instructions: they are to keep a daily diary and write about anything, keep a daily diary and write about how they are trying

to cope with their illness, or not told to keep any diary whatsoever. After following this protocol for a month, Professor Garcia then measures the cancer patients' self-reported level of depression. The independent variable in this hypothetical study is ________ and the dependent variable is ________. a) the type of diary kept, if any; the progression of the cancer
b) the type of diary kept, if any; the self-reported level of depression
c) the self-reported level of depression; the type of diary kept, if any
d) the cancer patients; the self-reported level of depression

Question 2

Sue is conducting an experiment in which she is trying to determine the influence of staring at a speaker on how much different speakers stutter.

Sue sends people to a speech class with instructions to stare for varied amounts of time at the speaker. The dependent variable is the ________. a) people doing the staring
b) amount of time that the people stare
c) the speech class
d) amount of stuttering that occurs