PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Polygraph, Domestic Disturbance, Police Psychology
19 Oct 2016
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Psychological research and clinical practice related to criminal or civil law: police, courts, victims, criminals, procedure to identify and define the ksas that make a good police. Stage 1 job analysis officer"s career. Job analysis: different ksas may be important at different times over a police, lack of consensus about what ksas are important. But most agree that the following are important: honesty, reliability, sensitivity to others, good communication skills, high motivation, problem-solving skills, and being a team player. Stage 2 construction and validation of assessment instrument: develop instrument(s) for measuring ksas. And how do you measure that: e. g. , complaints, commendations, academy exam scores, supervisor ratings, ex: police brutality (cid:523)what we don"t want(cid:524) Inter-rater reliability: how much agreement between different raters of the same applicant, differences of opinions lead to different conclusions. Fake results: taller people commit more crime (r = +1. 00) Fake results: shorter people commit more crime (r = -1. 00)
