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The Police Culture and Work Stress MCQ

_____ is defined as potentially dangerous citizens to whom police are trained to accord a level of suspicion

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Correct Answer: Symbolic assailants

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_____ is occurs when an event involves a constraint, opportunity, or excessive physical or psychological demand

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Correct Answer: Stress

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Is role conflict the result of inconsistent or incompatible expectations being communicated to a person?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as confusion a person experiences related to expectations of others

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Correct Answer: Role ambiguity

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_____ is defined as unfavorable attitudes toward a group or individual not based on experience or fact; a feeling about a person or persons based on faulty generalizations

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Correct Answer: Prejudice

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_____ is emotional disturbance leading to a numbing of emotions, insomnia, and depression

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Correct Answer: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

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Is police subculture shared values, attitudes, and norms created within the occupational and organizational environment of policing; a set of informal norms, largely based on tradition and passed on from generation to generation, that greatly influence police behavior and the perception of the public by police. Certain of these subcultural forces have a significant influence on the use of discretion, in both positive and negative ways?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is combination of characteristics and behaviors that are used to stereotype the police

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Correct Answer: Police personality

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Is police cynicism an attitude of contempt and distrust of human behavior and motives frequently formed by police officers as a result of negative situations and encounters?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as deeply held beliefs that guide behaviors in an organization

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Correct Answer: Organizational assumption

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_____ is defined as low levels of mental or physical activity

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Correct Answer: Hypostress

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_____ is an overload resulting from too many complex demands for the time allotted

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Correct Answer: Hyperstress

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Is general adaptation syndrome stages of stress experienced by a person after the exposure to stressors?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as fundamental spirit of a culture

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Correct Answer: Ethos

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_____ is defined as in this context, involves a loss of faith in people or loss of enthusiasm for police work

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Correct Answer: Cynicism

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_____ is an event that has a stressful impact sufficient to overwhelm the effective coping skills of a person

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Correct Answer: Critical incident

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Is code of silence (blue wall) protective, supportive, and shared attitudes, values, understandings, and views of the world associated with the police society?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as exhaustion and cynicism resulting from repeated exposure to high levels of stress

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Correct Answer: Burnout

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_____ is defined as most visible forms of an organizational culture (sounds, behaviors, language)

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Correct Answer: Artifacts

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An officer is equipped with a uniform, firearm, Taser, handcuffs, radio, and access to backup officers as needed to ensure that his or her ______ is unmistakable.

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Correct Answer: Authority

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______ refers to a police officer's ability to withstand interaction with an aggressive and/or combative person and not physically engage unless it becomes necessary to restrain the person.

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Correct Answer: Desensitization

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The police ______ can be described as having bravery, autonomy, and secrecy.

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Correct Answer: Ethos

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______ enables police to decide when to enforce the law and when to allow infractions to go without consequence.

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Correct Answer: Discretion

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This individual is responsible for working with a new police officer during his or her initial time out on the street.

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Correct Answer: Field training officer

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The musty smell characteristic of a station house, the rigid feel of dress blues, and the sound of bagpipes playing at an officer's funeral are all notable ______ of police culture.

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Correct Answer: Artifacts

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Which of the following would NOT be associated with the "six normative orders" within policing?

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Correct Answer: Brevity

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______ refers to the metaphorical boundary that separates the general public from the police as their own society.

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Correct Answer: Thin blue line

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of culture?

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Correct Answer: Hierarchy

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Which of the following is NOT a category of stressors that is known to affect police officers?

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Correct Answer: Team

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