In an experiment measuring performance in judging syllogisms, two statements (premises) were presented along with a conclusion statement. participants had to indicate (yes or no) if the conclusion logically flowed from the first two statements. error rates were then calculated for each syllogism. this experiment studies reasoning.

This experiment studies deductive reasoning.

Explanation:

Deductive reasoning is a thinking model that comes form the logic field. Logic studies the validy of the construction of arguments. Deductive reasoning is a process by which a conclusion can be deducted form premises.

Validity is stablished by the process of arriving to a conclusion, from the stablished premises.

Deductive

Explanation:

This is the process of reasoning from one or more statements, when a person wants to reach to a logically certain conclusion.

In the question it says that the participants were presented with two statements and a conclusion statement and they had to answer if the conclusion matched with the two statements.

You can infer that it is deductive reasoning because the experiment wants to reveal if the people can deduct if the conclusion statement makes sense after reading the other two statements.