CHAPTER SEVEN
QUESTIONS
1. A 1972 study revealed that police supervisors reported their best officers to be
a. intelligent
b. sociable
c. self-assured
d. all the above
2. The “big five” cluster of personality traits include
a. fearlessness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism
b. arrogance, fearlessness, conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness
c. openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism
d. conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism, and self-discipline
3. Decades of research have shown that _______________is a valuable predictor of work
performance for many occupational categories, including police work
a. moral reasoning
b. planning ability
c. impulse control
d. cognitive ability
4. According to Carter and Radelet (1999), it is the _______________ that is/are most damaging
to police officers
a. cumulative interactive stressors
b. individual stressful events
c. negative supervisory experiences
d. boredom interspersed with extreme excitement
5. Under the law, the failure of a police department to properly select police officers can best
be considered a form of
a. public irresponsibility
b. negligent hiring
c. negligent retention
d. negligent entrustment
6. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is administered by which federal agency?
a. the Congress
b. the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions
c. the federal courts
d. the Civil Rights Commission
7. As a corrective measure under the ADA, making changes in the nature of an employee’s job
is called
a. job conciliation
b. job compliance
c. reasonable compliance
d. reasonable accommodation
8. Pre-employment psychological screening of police applicants encompasses three spheres,
these are
a. cognitive assessment, personality assessment, and interview
b. background investigation, polygraph, and interview
c. cognitive assessment, background investigation, and polygraph
d. personality assessment, written examination, and polygraph
9. The most widely used psychological test in police applicant pre-employment psychological
screening is the
a. IPI
b. 16-PF
c. MMPI
d. CPI
10. The MMPI is divided into _______________ and _______________ scales
a. validity, personality
b. validity, clinical
c. clinical, personality
d. honesty, psychopathic
11. Scale 2 of the MMPI assesses
a. psychopathic-deviate
b. depression
c. hypomania
d. schizophrenia
12. Scale 4 of the MMPI assesses
a. psychopathic-deviate
b. depression
c. hypomania
d. schizophrenia
13. Scale 8 on the MMPI assesses
a. psychopathic-deviate
b. depression
c. hypomania
d. schizophrenia
14. Scale 9 on the MMPI assesses
a. psychopathic-deviate
b. depression
c. hypomania
d. schizophrenia
15. Hargrave & Hiatt (1987) as well as other researchers, have found that officers rated as
unsatisfactory by their supervisors tend to score higher on scales _____, _____, and
_____ on the MMPI than do satisfactory officers.
a. 4, 8, 9
b. 5, 6, 9
c. 5, 8, 9
d. 4, 6, 9
16. All of the following are tests designed to measure cognitive functioning except
a. the Hilson-Denning Reading Test
b. the Wonderlic Personnel Test
c. the Shipley Institute of Living Scale
d. the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
17. In Jordan v. City of New London (2000), the issue(s) at hand was(were)
a. does a low I.Q. score disqualify someone from being a police officer?
b. can someone be too intelligent to be a police officer?
c. does age discrimination apply to public safety jobs?
d. all the above
18. In Jordan v. City of New London (2000), the test used by the city of New London was the
a. the Hilson-Denning Reading Test
b. the Wonderlic Personnel Test
c. the Shipley Institute of Living Scale
d. the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
19. Which of the following tests is not commonly used in police pre-employment screening?
a. Inwald Personality Inventory
b. Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire
c. Rorschach Inkblot Test
d. California Psychological Inventory
20. United States’ courts at all levels have generally been _______________of police
departments’ rights to order fitness-for-duty evaluations and for making the necessary
and appropriate recommendations based on these evaluations
a. unsupportive
b. suspicious
c. dismissive
d. supportive
21. Many police department across the country became convinced of the need for hostage
negotiations teams after watching the 1972 Summer Olympics games in _______________.
a. Munich
b. Berlin
c. Amsterdam
c. Switzerland
22. This police department created the nation’s first hostage negotiations team
a. the Los Angeles Police Department
b. the New York Police Department
c. the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
d. the Newark New Jersey Police Department
23. The first full-time police officer in the country to earn a Ph.D. in psychology was
a. Robert Jordan
b. Simon Eisdorfer
c. Harvey Schlossberg
d. R.B. Cattell
24. The first policemen in this country was in the colony of
a. Plymouth
b. Maryland
c. New Amsterdam
d. Jamestown
25. Police Psychology has also been referred to as
a. applied psychology
b. occupational psychology
c. developmental psychology
d. a & b
26. The police department with the nation’s first full-time police psychologist was the
a. L.A.P.D.
b. N.Y.P.D.
c. Chicago P.D.
d. Boston P.D.
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