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
Breast surgery. Surgical removal of all or part of the breast is a treatment against the spread of b
Pap smear. Cells of the cervix (shown in the center) change in appearance as they progress through
Breast with cancer and cysts.
Cancer of testis
Dimensions of quality of life affected by cancer
Participating in religious services is related to better coping skills, less severe stress ...