... a word, rather than the colour of the ink, interference occurs only when the subject pays attention to the latter. Therefore, the results of the experiment should show a clear trend that ink colour of colour words take longer to recognise than non-colour words. And that subject will also make more errors when trying to distinguish between them. Method At the start of the experiment the 22 subjects were split into 2 groups, groups 1 and 2, each of 11 subjects. Group 1 was instructed to write a colour name in each coloured ink on the pieces of card supplied (e.g. write red in yellow ink), making sure to have an equal number of each colour, and then putting them into random order. Then Group 2 was instructed to write a non-colour name in each coloured ink on the pieces of card supplied (e.g. write cat in blue ink), making sure to ...

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