PSYCH 3860 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Impression Management, 16Pf Questionnaire, Deinstitutionalisation
Document Summary
Interview: reliability and validity, structured interviews more reliable, less biases, impression management, stereotypes, other biases, worst bias in interview: appearance. Situational tests: sample actual job situations police may face (observing clues, writing incident report, overly specific and expensive to administer. Psychological tests: cognitive and intellectual ability, personality, integrity, emotional stability, advantages: less bias, easier to administer, research, assess impression management. Iq: officers score average to above average, iq correlates well with training program results, weak correlates with actual performance. Personality tests: mmpi, cpi, 16pf- some evidence for these, inwald personality inventory, 26 scales measuring police relevant behaviors, special issues in police work, policing the mentally ill, after deinstitutionalization, mostly a police problem. 1/3 calls to police relate to someone with mental illness, 7% of police contact are people with a mental illness. 4 types: persons suffering mental disorder, trapped criminal, takeover of prison, terrorism, determining the motives.
