If Kiobe, an African pygmy who grew up and lived all his life in a thick forest, told an anthropologist that the distant buffalo on the open plain were insects, one might conclude that he
A)suffered from presbyopia.
B)lacked brightness constancy.
C)lacked shape constancy for great distance.
D)lacked size constancy for great distance.

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Lacking size constancy for great distance means that objects appear smaller the farther away they are. Kiobe mistook buffalo for insects, which suggests that he did not perceive their true size from a great distance. This is an example of a failure of size constancy for objects seen from far away.

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