---
title: "Use Personas for Generating Answers"
description: "Create responses from predefined personas with specific demographic or behavioral attributes."
url: https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/test-surveys/use-personas-for-generating-answers/
language: en
type: faq
audiences: ["Project Managers"]
published: 2026-08-25
updated: 2026-09-02
---

# Use Personas for Generating Answers

_Test Surveys · SurveyTester Academy_

Create responses from predefined personas with specific demographic or behavioral attributes.

## Benefits
-   More authentic respondent simulation
-   Better audience-specific testing
-   Validation of survey experiences across different respondent profiles

## Step by step
1.  Open the project in SurveyTester and go to **Test Survey**.
2.  Under **Answer Mode,** click on **AI with Persona**.
    1.  **Select Use Persona Behaviour** (Delays): SurveyTester simulates more realistic respondent behavior by introducing natural delays between answers.
    2.  **Include Answer Log Memory**: AI remembers answers that have already been provided during the current survey session and uses that context when generating subsequent responses.

    3.  Enabling both these options generates the most realistic AI respondent experience
    4.  Disabling both of these options gives the fastest test execution
    5.  Select a predefined Persona  and review the persona attributes for the selected persona)
3.  Choose **Start Testing** using the selected persona.

![](https://www.surveytester.com/academy/_img/test-surveys/use-personas-for-generating-answers/en/asIimage.png)**Result:** Responses are generated based on the persona's characteristics and behavior.

> [!NOTE]
> The demographic description of the persona selected should match the test case criteria. For example, if the test case is Male aged 50 and below, the above persona will contradict.