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SIZE CONSTANCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The tendency to perceive the veridical size of a familiar object despite differences in their distance (and consequent differences in the size of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("size constancy" is a kind of...):
constancy; perceptual constancy ((psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation)
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