PSYC39H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Lewis Terman, Police Psychology, Job Analysis
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Police selection procedures - screen out undesirable candidates, select in desirable ones; use characteristics like tness, cognitive abilities, personality, job-related task performance. Lewis terman, stanford-binet intelligence test to help with police selection - he recommended minimum iq should be 80; psych screening became standard in us. Now we also have other criteria - higher educational requirements, intro of formal tests to assess their cognitive abilities and personality features; formalized the process. Constructing and validating selection instruments: goals - develop a selection instrument for measuring extent to which police applicants possess relevant ksas; ensure that instrument relates to measures of police performance. Psychological tests: cognitive ability tests - procedure for measuring verbal, mathematical, memory, and reasoning abilities. Rpat used by rcmp - measures composition, memory, comprehension, logic, etc. Better at predicting performance during police academy training rather than future performance on the job personality variables play a larger role in determining job success, beyond your cognitive abilities: personality tests.
