“…Several studies exploring the effects of distinctive verbal encoding on recognition memory for shapes have yielded inconsistent results. The effects of verbal encoding on recognition memory for shapes have been both negative (Bahrick & Boucher, 1968;Hake & Eriksen, 1956;Prentice , 1954 ;Santa & Ranken, 1968;Vanderplas & Garvin, 1959b) and positive (Clark, 1965 ;Daniel & Ellis, 1972;Ellis & Daniel, 1971;Ellis & Homan , 1968;Ellis& Muller, 1964;Federico & Montague, 1975;Kelly & Martin, 1974 ;Price & Slive, 1970 ;Ranken , 1963 ;Santa & Ranken, 1972).…”