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
E) how well the subjects are coping; the type of diary kept, if any
Answer: B
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