As Alicia awaits the birth of her first grandchild, she says she doesn't care if it is a boy or a girl as long as the baby is healthy. When she holds her new granddaughter for the first time, Alicia reveals that she knew all along that her daughter would have a little girl. Alicia's barrier to rational reasoning in this instance is a case of:
a. hindsight bias
b. confirmation bias
c. a mental set
d. justification of effort

Alicia's barrier to rational reasoning in this instance of hindsightbias(a)

Explanation:

The Hindsight bias is also referred to as knew-it-all-along phenomenon or creeping determinism.

Hindsight bias refers to the mental ability or the psychological ability of people or a person to predict or overestimate an outcome that could not be predicted otherwise

Like in the above question Alicia is overconfident about her opinion about having a granddaughter( she is predicting an outcome)

the answer is true!                                          

answer; conditional stimulus will trigger a conditioned response;