Children at four age levels (4,6,8,and 10 years) were given continuous recongnition tasks using concret noun, abstract noun, and pictorial stimul in a 4 X 3 factorial design. Pictures were recongnized significantly better than concrete and abstract nouns at the 4- and 6-year age levels and significantly better than abstract nouns at the 8- and 10-year age levels. This supported Paivio’s contention that pictures are easier to remember than words because of a greater possibility of dual encoding, while Rohwer contention that there is a shift in recognition memory development received no support. There were no significant differences between recognition of concrete and abstract nouns at any age level, which opposed the findings from adult studies and suggested that Paivio’s theorical orientations would have to be extended in order to account for developmental data. Recognition for both concrete and abstract nouns was found to be linear and increasing significantly with age, but no age trends for picture recognition were found.