The pygmy people live in the dense rain forests of Africa,and few ever see wide open spaces.An anthropologist once took a pygmy out of the rain forest and showed him a wide plain where buffaloes were grazing.The buffaloes were so far away that they looked like insects to the pygmy,and when the anthropologist drove closer to them,the pygmy was convinced that some form of witchcraft was being used to change the insects into buffaloes.Because of his lack of experience with distant objects,the pygmy had not developed
A) a linear perspective.
B) gustation.
C) the law of proximity.
D) size constancy.

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The pygmy was unable to recognize the buffaloes as being the same size even though they were far away. This lack of ability to perceive distant objects as being the same size as when they are closer is called size constancy. The other options, linear perspective, gustation, and the law of proximity, do not directly relate to the pygmy's inability to perceive the distance and size of the buffaloes.

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