... sheet of 30 anagrams. The design is going to be a repeated measures experiment. PB4: Evaluation of the Advantages and Disadvantages of the Chosen Research Method. One disadvantage of the research method is that it is not like real life. In a real situation participants may not have to be sat down doing a task with just music playing in the background. Their may be other confounding variables such as the volume of the music. Therefore it will have a low ecological validity. An advantage of this study is that it is replicable; therefore confirmation of the results will be possible. This will ensure that the study is reliable. Another advantage is that laboratory experiments involve the most control over variables and therefore it will give most confidence that the IV has caused changes in the DV. PB5: Identify Potential Sources of Bias in the Investigation and Any Possible Confounding Variables. One source of ...

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