In 1935, an American
pshychologist by the name of John Ridley Stroop
incited the Stroop Test, that is
a word appears on screen that is the name of a colour
but it appears as a different colour
and it confuses the mind
it occured to me, that with the tube map
that's there a lot of colours that
we instinctively know
so, how much fun would it be
if we then changed some of those colours around
So here are the 11 tube lines which we all know and love
and here are the colours that are represented by those lines
and i've got five test for you, try and do them in real time
and make a note of which ones you found easy
and which ones, were harder to do
Test number one, ok ... name the line
that is represented by the colour block on screen
e.g. here the answer is Victoria
Ready? and ... Go
Test number two
we'll make it a bit harder now
this time, you have to name the colour that is represented by the word shown
e.g. here the answer is Yellow, for the Circle line
Ready? And go ...
Test number three
now for some fun without the coloured blocks
we're going to colour the words instead
here, you have to name the line
that the colour represents
e.g. Here, the answer is District
And off you go ...
Test number four
alright, as before
you still need to name the line that the colour represents
but the words now show the names of those colours
not the lines
so in this example, the answer would be ... Metropolitan
Ready? Off you go ...
and finally, test number five
we're back to coloured blocks but the colours of the line
have also changed, and what you need to do again
name the line that the colour of the word represents
e.g in this case, the answer ... is the Piccadilly line
Ready? And go ...
and that's the London Underground Stroop test
changing colours, which you know so well
that it really confuses the mind
let us know, how you got on in the comments below
which bits you found easy
and which ones you found hard
and i'll leave you with the idea of a Tube Map
where all the colours have also .... completely changed