PSYC 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Personality Test, Physical Fitness

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2001
• Professor: Jordan Schoenherr

Document Summary

Applying psychological science and practice to law enforcement environment: assessment, organizational consultation, intervention, operational support. Process by which police agencies select police officers from a pool of applicants: screening out those with undesirable qualities or selecting those with desirable qualities. Physical fitness, cognitive abilities, personality, and job-related abilities. 1916: terman uses iq tests to select officers in california (minimum score of 80 recommended) 1922: thurstone uses iq test to select police officers in detroit (police officers are unintelligent) 1950: humm and humm use psychological tests to select police officers in los angeles (reasonable degree of accuracy) 1960-70: psychological and psychiatric screening procedures standard in many agencies. Today: background checks, medical exams, physical fitness tests, selection interviews, cognitive ability tests; personality assessments, etc. All agencies conduct background checks and require medical exams. Most use cognitive ability tests and personality tests. Police selection involves two stages: job analysis, construction and validation.