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If you’ve taken a personality test before, you know it can be a tedious and frustrating process. The prospect of answering count

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问题    If you’ve taken a personality test before, you know it can be a tedious and frustrating process. The prospect of answering countless and repetitive questions leaves people disengaged—yet these tests continue to be taken by millions every year. However, as new HR technologies emerge, traditional tests seem increasingly out of touch. Why? Because they don’t tap into what we humans are best at: visual processing.
   Visual tests are not completely new. Image-based tests like the Rorschach inkblot test (罗夏墨迹测试), which unearths unconscious aspects of the human psyche, have long been used by psychologists to explore personality. The use of images in personality assessments makes them more fun, seamless and engaging, but also has other added benefits.
   First, using image-based assessments can reduce test taker fatigue because processing pictures requires less attention than processing text and is much faster. In fact, Potter and colleagues found that the brain can process the complex information within an image in only 13 milliseconds. This is a staggering 60,000 times faster than processing text alone! The reduction in test fatigue can lead to more accurate responses and better completion rates. Second, images not only tap into conscious processes extremely quickly but they also access the unconscious, and elicit faster and stronger preferences. Responses to images are more likely to be definitive. Third, image-based assessments are easier to digest for those who have difficulty reading or understanding text. This should make them more accessible to those with learning difficulties, less education or language barriers. Finally, a stronger reliance on images as opposed to text may be the better approach when trying to understand personality across cultures. Carefully selected images don’t require the kind of fine-tuning across languages and cultures that text requires, and are thus less prone to cultural misunderstandings.
   Given the potential benefits of using images in assessment, it isn’t surprising that test designers have begun to use pictures and even videos. Although more work is needed to establish the full validity of the new generation of visual assessments, initial research looks promising. One thing is certain: we must find creative and interesting ways to measure personality and keep up with people’s increasing expectations of emerging technology.
   Visual tests like these are becoming more common and critical now more than ever before, thanks to the evolution of technology and increase in new behavior and usage of devices. Rather than stick to traditional methods, it’s imperative that we start to embrace the benefits of mobile technology—allowing people to take and use image-based personality tests, quickly and simply, wherever they are in the world. Technology will continue to advance steadily as will the expectations of job applicants. Using advancements like image-based tests to capitalize on seemingly obvious facts (humans are best at visual processing!) will become the norm. Companies ignoring these trends will quickly get left behind.
Which of the following may be the benefit of image-based personality tests?
选项 A、They can accelerate the process of complex text messages.
B、They can collect more information about human personality.
C、They help the less-educated to understand written messages.
D、They help to overcome the cross-cultural misunderstandings.
答案D
解析 推理判断题。本题考查基于图像的测试有什么好处。第三段集中论述了视觉测试的益处，共有四点，其中最后一点是精心挑选的图像不像文字那样需要跨语言、跨文化的精细调整，也因此不容易产生文化误解，故答案为D)。A)“它们能够加速对复杂文字信息的处理”曲解了第三段前三句的意思，原文是对比图像处理与文字处理的速度，而不是说基于图像的测试可以帮助加速文字信息处理，故排除；B)“它们能够收集关于人类性格的更多信息”是对第三段第五、六句的曲解，原文只是说图像不仅能极快地进入意识处理过程，而且还能进人潜意识，激发更快、更强烈的偏好，故排除；C)“它们帮助受教育程度较低的人理解书面信息”，原文的意思是受教育程度较低的人处理文字信息可能有困难，而处理图像信息就不存在这个问题，故排除。
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