Little Marisa watches from the car as her parents drive away from her grandfather's house. Because of ________, Marisa knows her grandfather's house remains the same size, even though the image gets smaller as they drive farther away.

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Size constancy is the perception of an object's size as remaining constant even when the image of the object on the retina changes as one moves farther away from or closer to the object. This means that Marisa understands that her grandfather's house remains the same size, even though the image of it on her retina is getting smaller as the car moves away. The Müller-Lyer illusion involves the misperception of an object's length due to the influence of visual cues such as arrows that suggest depth. The law of good continuation is a gestalt principle that suggests that elements that are aligned and/or arranged in a smooth and continuous way are more likely to be perceived together as a unit. The law of proximity is another gestalt principle that suggests that elements that are close together in space are more likely to be perceived as belonging to the same unit.

Little Marisa Watches from the Car as Her Parents Drive