Kelly found that she was the only woman in her advanced statistics course, which had 30 students. Which of the following best describes Kelly's situation?
A)Her classmates will likely ignore her.
B)She will be perceived as a salient stimulus by her classmates and thus receive their attention.
C)Her classmates will store information about Kelly in the "event" compartment of long-term memory.
D)Her classmates will store information about Kelly in the "semantic" compartment of long-term memory.
E)Her instructor will likely commit the recency perceptual error when calculating Kelly's grade.

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Something is salient when it stands out from its context. Research has shown that people tend to pay attention to salient stimuli. Here, Kelly stands out from her class, and will be perceived as a salient stimulus by her classmates.

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