PSYC 3020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Police Psychology, Police Services Act Of Ontario, Job Performance
4 Oct 2016
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Requires intelligent, creative, ethical, caring and hard working individuals. Lewis terman used the stanford-binet intelligence test to assist with police selection in california in 1917: his recommendation was that one had at least an iq score of 80. By the 1950"s psychological screening procedures became a standard part of selection procedure. Job analysis stage: a procedure for identifying the knowledge, skills and abilities that makes a good police officer. Also need to ensure that this instrument has predictive validity: +1 means that as performance in the instrument increases job performance also increases, -1 means that as performance in the instrument increases, job performance decreases. The selection interview: most common selection instrument, usually takes the form of a semi-structured interview to determine if the applicant possess the ksa"s for the job. Relatively little research on the predictive validity of the selection interview: research that does exist is mixed.
