PSYC 2400 Lecture 1: LECTURE 1 - Police Psychology
10 Feb 2017
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Forensic psychology: psychological research & clinical practice related to criminal/civil law. Police work requires intelligent, creative, patient, ethical, caring, & hard-working individuals. Police selection procedures: set of procedures used by the police to either screen out undesirable candidates or select desirable ones (e. g. physical fitness, cognitive abilities, personality, & performance on various job-related tasks) Lewis terman stanford-binet intelligence test, california, 1917: minimum iq score of 80 for future applicants. Attempts in mid-20th century to predict police performance through personality tests. Mid-1950s psychological & psychiatric screening procedures of police applicants became standard part of selection procedure in major us police departments. Key changes since then : higher educational requirements, formal tests to assess cognitive abilities & personality features. Job analysis: procedure for identifying the ksas that make a good police officer. Organizational psychologists working w/ police agency conducts job analysis. May be informal i. e. asking members of police agency to list range of qualities they feel is essential for the job.
