PSYC 3020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Lewis Terman, Police Psychology, Domestic Disturbance

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3020
• Professor: Dan Yarmey

Document Summary

Police work requires intelligent, creative, patient, ethical, caring, and hard-working individuals so it"s important that those accepted for the job have highest potential for success. Police selection procedures: set of procedures used by the police to either screen out undesirable candidates or select in desirable candidates. Desirable characteristics include physical fitness, cognitive abilities, personality, and performance on various job-related tasks. Psychologists have been involved in police selection since early 20th century. Earliest example of psychologist involvement is lewis terman in 1917 who uses the. Stanford-binet iq test to determine a baseline iq of 80 for future applicants. Mid-20th century was use of personality tests to predict police performance. Mid-1950s psychological/psychiatric screening of police applicants became a standard part of the selection procedure. In 1960s and 70s major changes to police selection in the u. s. took place as a result of two major events: 1967 u. s. president"s commission on law enforcement and administration of.