PSYC 3020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Absenteeism, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychiatric Hospital
17 Jan 2017
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Police selection process set of procedures used by the police to either screen out undesirable candidates or select in desirable candidates. First began in 1917 with the standord-binet intelligence test. Now they require higher education and introduced formal tests to assess. By the 50"s, psychological and psychiatric screening procedures of applicants. Background checks are now mandatory (rcmp"s police aptitude test and six cognitive abilities and personality features. factor personality questionnaire became a standard procedure. Stage 1: referred to as the job analysis stage; the agency must define the knowledge, skills, and abilities (ksa) of a good police officer. Stage 2: construction and validation stage; the agency must develop an instrument for measuring the extent to which applicants possess these ksa"s. Job analysis procedure for identifying the ksa"s that make a good officer. Organizational psychologist have a range of techniques: survey"s and.
