jquery ajax example,jquery ajax get example

At the moment I'm using the post method like this

$.ajax({

type: "POST",

url: "Servicename.asmx/DoSomeCalculation",

data: "{param1ID:"+ param1Val+"}",

contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",

dataType: "json",

success: function(msg) {

UseReturnedData(msg.d);

},

error: function(err) {

alert(err.toString());

if (err.status == 200) {

ParseResult(err);

}

else { alert('Error:' + err.responseText + ' Status: ' + err.status); }

}

});

Am I correct in believing that if I use a GET request instead of POST the behavior will change to being a synchronous request i.e. the execution will wait until the response has been received from the server??

Can somebody show me a jquery GET example calling a webmethod of a web service directly?

UPDATE: Using the async flag as suggested below is really all i needed to do so this works for me. I'm still curious as to what work needs to be done to the code above to make it a GET request. Changing type: "GET" doesn't have the desired effect!