PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Deinstitutionalisation, Ottawa Police Service, Vancouver International Airport
17 Jan 2013
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Depends on the person interviewing whether they believe the person should be selected. Poor inter-rater reliability different interviewers have different opinions. Some believe that there should be a more structured way to interview (to be more standard) Generally tests: verbal, mathematical, memory, reasoning. More predictive of training success than actual performance. Doesn"t necessarily transfer to the success with being an officer. Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (mmpi: designed to identify psychopathological issues (depression, schizophrenia, paranoia, etc. , moderate but significant prediction (not a great prediction, low correlation) Inwald personality inventory (ipi: developed for law enforcement specifically, measure personality and behaviour patterns to assess suitability for police work, researcher suggest ipi more predictive of police officer performance than mmpi, although still. Identifies bad attributes, to screen out possible individuals preliminary. Interpersonal conflict (family conflicts, sexual concerns: 1 validity scale (guardedness, social desirability) Detrick & chibnall (2002: family conflict scale predicted supervisor conflicts, driving violations predicted poor supervisor evaluations.
