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Method Design The actual research method used is an experiment. Experiments always have an IV and DV. In my experiment I shall be looking to see; 'how many words at each level of processing are remembered'. The experimental design, which I shall be following is the repeated measures design. This entails using the same people and testing them under different conditions. In my case it will be testing the same people on the different levels of processing (semantic, phonological and structural). Some disadvantages of the 'repeated measures design' are the practice effects, fatigue and/or boredom of the participants. To reduce this risk we can use a technique called counterbalancing, which involves varying the order of the way in which the trials are presented. I used counterbalancing in my experiment. The advantages of this method, however, is that it is often more accurate, also that we can use the same participants to test...

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