Professor Garcia is studying how cancer patients are coping with ...

[magmichele12]

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

[emily12345]

Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

d

[magmichele12]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

[kthug]

Excellent