Which theory would suggest that watching a horror movie late at night could lower your absolute threshold for sound as you subsequently tried to fall asleep?

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The signal detection theory posits that individuals' ability to detect a stimulus is influenced by their sensitivity to the stimulus in addition to their response criterion (i.e. how certain they want to be before detecting the stimulus). Therefore, if one watches a horror movie late at night, their response criterion may be lowered due to the heightened sense of fear and anxiety, making them more likely to perceive sounds that they may not have otherwise noticed.

Which Theory Would Suggest That Watching a Horror Movie Late