An instructional effect on size-constancy judgments when standard and comparison test-objects were at the same distance is reported. This effect was similar to effects obtained when standard and comparison were at different distances, and it increased with practice. Such result could have been produced by a context-effect due to the standard having always been located farther than the comparison when the 2 were at obviously different distances.
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