PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Police Psychology, Assessment Centre, Job Performance
21 Jan 2017
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Clinical practice related to criminal or civil law. Stage 1: job analysis: identify and define the skills and abilities you desire in a good police officer, some challenges arise when agreeing upon the. Stage 2: construction and validation of assessment instrument: develop tool so that it accurately predicts performance. Instruments used in selection include: selection interviews. Interviewer asks a series of preset questions that are constant across all candidates. Important that there is: inter-rater reliability: similar results and opinions on the candidates by different interviewers, predictive validity: how strongly is the predictor"s chosen related to the individual"s performance on the job, psychological tests. 2 types: cognitive ability test: measures verbal, mathematical, memory and reasoning skills, personality tests. Amount of complaints, awards, exam scores: assessment centers: a facility in which behavior of police in tested while they are able to observe them in a number of various situations.
