Question

An experiment measures participants' performance in judging syllogisms. Two premises and a conclusion are presented as stimuli, and participants are asked to indicate (yes or no) if the conclusion logically follows from the premises. Error rates are then calculated for each syllogism. This experiment studies_________reasoning.

a. deductive
b. intuitive
c. falsification
d. inductive

Answer 1

The anwer is a. deductive reasoning.

Step-by-step explanation:

Deductive reasoning occurs when a conclusion is logically met based on previous statements. It states that a conclusion will be true only if the premises can be proved to be also true. In this way it differs from inductive reasoning, in whch the premises don't need to be true, but only probable.