This morning, a very loud clap of thunder right outside your window startled you. For the rest of the day, any kind of loud sound—a car backfiring, a dropped dish—causes you to jump out of your chair. This is an example of
sensitization in psychology occurs as a result of repetitive or excessive exposure to a particular stimulus. It happens when a person's neurological response to that particular stimuli is as a result of how the stimuli had affected him initially(secondary stimuli). For instance in the question here, the person responds to every other sound during the day because of his response to the thunder strike
