"The present experiment was designed to test the prediction, based upon Bartlett's findings, that labeling will improve the accuracy of retention." Two groups of 36 S's from elementary school were shown 16 familiar objects. One group was required to encircle and pronounce aloud the name of each object on a sheet of paper, the other group encircled the picture of each object. Recall and recognition tests were given a week later. Results indicated that the verbalization group was on the whole superior to the non-verbalization group. A significant interaction was found between the method of observation and the form (verbal or visual) of the recognition test. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)