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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

Question 2

If you are given the information that in order to vote in a presidential election, you must be at least 18 years of age, and that Will voted in the last presidential election, you can logically conclude that Will is at least 18 years old. This is an example of using reasoning.
 
  a. inductive
  b. deductive
  c. conjunctive
  d. descriptive


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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
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