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 buffalo were grazing. The buffalo 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 buffalo. 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 lack of experience with distant objects suggests that the pygmy had not developed size constancy, the ability to perceive the size of an object as constant despite changes in its distance from the viewer.

The Pygmy People Live in the Dense Rain Forests of Africa