Little Karla is with her mother at the docks waiting for her daddy to return from his naval deployment. While the boat is still a ways out, her mother says, "There is daddy's boat." Karla is confused. She cannot understand how her dad can be on a boat that is so small that she can hold up her thumb and boat disappears. It's safe to assume that Karla does not yet understand

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Size constancy is the ability to understand that an object's actual size remains the same even when its image on the retina changes due to factors such as distance or angle. Karla's confusion about the size of the boat suggests she has not yet developed this ability.

Little Karla Is with Her Mother at the Docks Waiting