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WORD COLOUR TEST

In this test DO NOT READ the words, SAY ALOUD the COLOUR of each word (as quickly as possible).
And see if you can get them all correct!

YELLOW BLUE ORANGE
BLACK RED GREEN
PURPLE YELLOW RED
ORANGE GREEN BLACK
BLUE RED PURPLE
GREEN BLUE ORANGE

This is a type of psycholinguistic test that poses some difficulty because the portion of the brain that handles language has the conflicting tasks of verbalising the colour of the written words while ignoring the meaning of words representing colors.