If a very large football player is standing on the other side of a football field, he will only be projected onto a small area of your retina. Indeed, it will be much smaller than the area projected by the elementary school-aged child standing next to you. Yet you perceive the football player to be taller than the child because of _______________.

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Size constancy allows us to perceive objects as maintaining a constant size despite changes in their distance from us, which explains why we perceive the football player as taller than the child even when he is far away.

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