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Police and Public Safety Psychology MCQ

Police and Public Safety Psychology MCQ

 

1. Is task-related stress stress related to the nature of the work itself. In a law enforcement context, for example, this includes the possibility of being killed in the line of duty?

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Correct Answer: True

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2. _____ is known as a psychological instrument with good validity and reliability used to measure normal or core personality traits in adults. Does not neces­sarily predict success in law enforcement.

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Correct Answer: Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16-PF)

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3. _____ is defined as designed to eliminate those law enforcement applicants who demonstrate significant signs of psychopathology or emotional instability or who lack the basic ability or mental acuity to perform the job in a safe and responsible manner.

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Correct Answer: screening-out procedures

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4. _____ is intended to identify those attributes (almost invariably personality) that distinguish one candidate over another as being potentially a more effective police officer.

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Correct Answer: screening-in procedures

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5. Is preemployment psychological screening the psychological evaluation that is conducted prior to a conditional offer of employment?

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Correct Answer: True

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6. _____ is known as the extent to which a test predicts a person’s subsequent performance on the dimensions and tasks the test is designed to measure.

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Correct Answer: predictive validity

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7. _____ is defined as represents a collection of emotions and psychological response patterns that may occur after a law enforcement officer shoots a person in the line of duty.

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Correct Answer: Post-shooting traumatic reaction (PSTR)

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8. _____ is a set of behaviors and attitudes that are presumed to be characteristic of individuals involved in law enforcement work, such as suspicion, toughness, and protectiveness of other law enforcement officers.

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Correct Answer: police culture

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9. Is personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) a self-administered, objective inventory of adult personality that provides information on critical clinical variables?

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Correct Answer: True

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10. _____ is known as stress related to marital relationships, health problems, addictions, peer group pressures, feelings of helplessness and depression, and lack of achievement.

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Correct Answer: personal stress

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11. _____ is defined as refers to the emotional and stressful effects that the policies and practices of the police department have on the individual officer.

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Correct Answer: organizational stress

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12. _____ is personality inventory based on the five-factor model of personality traits.

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Correct Answer: NEO Personality Inventory–Revised (NEO PI-R)

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13. Is inventory-Revised-Restructured Form (MMPI-R-RF) self-report personality inventory used in clinical practice, especially in the selec­tion of law enforcement and public safety personnel. Although the inventory uses many questions from the MMPI-2, researchers have developed its own norms and clinical scales?

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Correct Answer: True

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14. _____ is known as self-administered personality inventory used in numerous contexts, including law enforcement screening.

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Correct Answer: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–Revised (MMPI-2)

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15. _____ is defined as identification and analysis of the skills, abilities, knowledge, and psychological characteristics that are needed to do a job.

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Correct Answer: job analysis

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16. _____ is developed for use with corrections officers, this personality inventory is used by some clinicians to measure personality in law enforcement officers as well.

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Correct Answer: Inwald Personality Inventory (IPI)

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17. Is fitness-for-duty evaluations (FFDEs) assessments con­ducted to determine the psychological ability of law enforcement officers to perform their essential job functions, particularly after experiencing a major stressful event?

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Correct Answer: True

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18. _____ is known as refers not to what a psychological test actually measures, but to what it superficially appears to measure.

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Correct Answer: Face (or content) validity

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19. _____ is defined as stress that is outside of one’s daily tasks. In the law enforcement context, they include frustrations with the courts, the prosecutor’s office, the criminal process, the correctional system, the media, and public attitudes toward policing.

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Correct Answer: external stress

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20. _____ is refers to situations in law enforcement where the level of force exceeds the level considered justifiable under the circumstances.

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Correct Answer: excessive force

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21. Is early warning systems see early intervention system?

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Correct Answer: True

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22. _____ is known as also called an early warn­ing system, this is a program that helps identify psychological and performance problems in law enforcement officers early and provide them with support services.

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Correct Answer: Early intervention system (EIS)

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23. _____ is defined as emergencies and disasters that are nonroutine and unanticipated.

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Correct Answer: critical incidents

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24. _____ is in psychological testing, validity measured by comparing one test with another, already established one.

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Correct Answer: concurrent validity

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25. Is california Psychological Inventory (CPI) a personal­ity measure often used in the screening of law enforcement officers. It focuses on normal or adaptive personality traits, rather than on abnormal traits. Approximately 25% of police agencies are believed to use the CPI for candidate screening?

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Correct Answer: True

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26. _____ is a federal law that guarantees equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in state and local government services, public accommodations, employment, transportation, and telecommunications.

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Correct Answer: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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27. Accepting bribes, confiscating drug money, and planting evidence are examples of ______.

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Correct Answer: Police corruption

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28. Ethnic and racial minorities are better represented in law enforcement than are women.

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Correct Answer: False

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29. Which category of hostage taker perpetrates more than 50% of all hostage-taking incidents?

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Correct Answer: Individuals who have committed a crime

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30. Research suggests that the strongest reason for police suicide appears to be ______.

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Correct Answer: Financial difficulties

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31. The biggest shift in the role of police psychology in recent years has been in the area of ______.

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Correct Answer: Operational support

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32. All of the following were found to be crucial variables in post-shooting traumatic reactions except ______.

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Correct Answer: The circumstances surrounding the shooting

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33. Law enforcement officers are often expected to keep their emotions under control in emotionally charged situations. This process is referred to as ______.

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Correct Answer: Interpersonal submission

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34. Police agencies that used a psychologist in hostage-taking incidents reported ______.

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Correct Answer: Fewer incidents of death or injury to involved parties

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35. The MMPI and the MMPI-2 were originally designed to identify ______.

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Correct Answer: Normal personality traits

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36. Aamodt and Stalnaker (2001) found that the suicide rate among police officers is likely ______.

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Correct Answer: Higher in women and minorities

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37. The primary goal of a crisis intervention team is to ______.

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Correct Answer: Minimize harmful effects of job stress resulting from emergency situations

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38. FFDE stands for ______.

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Correct Answer: Federal Fire Deposition Emergency

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39. Research has shown that police culture is much more ______ than previously assumed.

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Correct Answer: Heterogeneous

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40. The majority of police psychologists work as ______.

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Correct Answer: Consultants

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41. The NEO Personality Inventory–Revised (NEO PI-R) is specifically designed to measure the five major domains of personality.

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Correct Answer: True

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