When jade, sees her co-worker, chris, being yelled at by their boss for showing up to work late, she assumes that chris was late because he is lazy and irresponsible. however, the next day when jade is late to work, she tries to explain to her boss that she was stuck in traffic because there was an accident on the freeway.

Dispositional attribution.

Explanation:

Dispositional attribution is the tendency of misunderstanding of a certain cause to be the result of one's traits or internal characteristics. This is also called internal attributions. In such attribution, we oversee the possibilities of any outer force.

In the given question, Jade is having assumption of dis-positional attribution because he is thinking that Chris is late because of his internal attribution, i.e., laziness and irresponsibility and overlooked any possibility of outer force(traffic).

So, the correct answer is Dispositional attribution.