Jackson's teacher knows that he has had the flu and has been very ill. Jackson doesn't perform well on his exam, but his teacher still believes that his poor performance is due to his laziness and not to his illness. Jackson's teacher is demonstrating:

Correspondence bias

Explanation:

Correspondence bias  is the mechanism in which conclusion about any person's unique and durable nature or traits is based upon behavior in the circumstances in which they happen to occur. Certain action or response in particular situation is seen as personality behavior

According to question,Jackson's example is depicting correspondence bias where teacher is basing poor performance of Jackson in studies upon laziness trait as his behavior even though she knows he has illness and flu which actually led to degraded performance.

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