A young girl observes how much her sister worries about her car being scratched. She waits for the moment she sits down to yell out "a branch fell on your car!" Her sister runs to check on her car and realizes it was a joke and walks away upset. The young girl continues this numerous times. One day, she looks out the window and notices that a branch is about to fall on the car. She calls out to her sister and is ignored. This is an example of the dangers of:

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The scenario describes habituation, where the sister becomes accustomed to the false alarms about her car and eventually stops responding to them.

A Young Girl Observes How Much Her Sister Worries About