An undergraduate student is designing a research project to investigate the effects of family background on the types of stress symptoms experienced during college. The project focuses on symptoms related to sleeping and eating

The student researcher must present the research proposal to a faculty committee
for approval. What is the committee likely to recommend?
a) Add more stress symptoms because people have different reactions
to stress.
b) Classify the eating-related symptoms as either related to anorexia or
to bulimia.
c) Quantify the stress levels students experience by counting the number
of exams they took during the semester.
d) Focus on students who have experienced stressful events quite some
time ago, so the events will have had time to have an effect.

a