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MULTIPLE CHOICE

 

1.Lewis Terman’s attempt to assist with police selection in the early 1900s involved the assessment of:

a.intelligence

b.physical abilities

c.personality traits

d.criminal background

e.authoritarianism

2.Which of the following police selection procedures is used by all Canadian police agencies when selecting officers?

a.medical exams

b.polygraph tests

c.cognitive ability tests

d.drug tests

e.personality tests

3.According to Cochrane, Tett, and Vandecreek (2003), which of the following police selection procedures is most commonly used in the United States?

a.physical agility tests

b.drug testing

c.selection interview

d.background checks

e.polygraph tests

4.In the context of police selection, what is meant by KSA?

a.KSA is a physical ability test taken by all potential officers.

b.KSA refers to sets of characteristics that define a “good” police officer.

c.KSA is a police selection agency.

d.KSA refers to characteristics that are undesirable in a potential police officer.

e.KSA refers to an instrument that is used to assess psychopathology.

5.In the context of police selection, the term validation refers to:

a.the development of a selection instrument to measure the abilities of potential police officers

b.the need to ensure that certified individuals are administering police selection tests to applicants

c.the need to ensure that the results of a police selection instrument are related to some measure of police performance

d.a job analysis

e.none of the above

6.Which of the following is considered to be a serious problem with validation research in the area of police selection?

a.There is disagreement on how to best measure the performance of police officers.

b.There is no validity coefficient available for measuring predictive validity.

c.Indicators of on-the-job performance do not exist in the policing field.

d.Cognitive ability tests are characterised by relatively high validity coefficients.

e.Few police applicants have to go through the selection process.

7.Which psychometric property is most important in the context of police selection?

a.concurrent validity

b.divergent validity

c.predictive validity

d.intrinsic reliability

e.long-term reliability

8.The validity coefficient calculated for a selection instrument (when it is used to predict job performance) is +0.99. This means that:

a.as performance on the selection instrument increases, so do ratings of job performance

b.as performance on the selection instrument increases, ratings of job performance decrease

c.the coefficient is negative, so there is no relationship between the selection instrument and job performance ratings

d.there is a strong relationship between the results of the selection instrument and ratings of job performance

e.both a and d

9.Which of the following has been identified as a key problem with the police selection interview?

a.The interview lacks any structure.

b.The interview is too lengthy to be used by many police agencies.

c.Interviewers often disagree on the ratings that should be assigned to various attributes of the interviewee.

d.The interview has very high predictive validity.

e.all of the above

10.You are applying to be a police officer with the RCMP. Which of the following tests would you expect to be administered in order to measure your cognitive abilities?

a.IPI

b.the situational test

c.RPAT

d.KSA

e.MMPI

 

 

 

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