An Experiment Measures Participants' Performance in Judging Syllogisms

question 19

Multiple Choice

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

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