PSYCH230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Lewis Terman, Assessment Centre, Police Psychology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH230
• Professor: John Rempel

Document Summary

Psychology and law chapter two: police psychology. Police selection procedures a set of procedures used by the police to effectively screen out applicants who possess undesirable characteristics and/or select in applicants who possess desirable characteristics. Job analysis a procedure for identifying the knowledge, skills, and abilities that make a good police officer. Selection interview an interview used by the police service when recruiting police officers to determine the extent to which an applicant possesses the knowledge, skills, and abilities deemed important for the job. Cognitive ability tests procedure for measuring verbal, mathematical, memory, and reasoning abilities. Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory an assessment instrument used to identifying people with psychopathological problems. Inwald personality inventory an assessment instrument used to identify police applicants who are suitable for police work by measuring their personality attributes and behavior patterns. Assessment center a facility in which the behavior of police applicants can be observed in a number of situations by multiple observers.