Ch. 10 - Police Psychology

Question 1

Police Forces

Answer 1

Organizations that maintain public order and safety by ensuring compliance with laws, rules, and regulations

Question 2

Police Psychology

Answer 2

The application of psychological theory and research to law enforcement

Question 3

Assessment Domain

Answer 3

Activities associated with the development, and implementation of procedures for evaluating individuals, primarily law enforcement applicants, officers, and administrators

Question 4

Intervention Domain

Answer 4

Activities associated with provision of clinical services to law enforcement personnel

Question 5

Intervention Domain

Answer 5

Activities associated with supporting and enhancing the work of law enforcement officers, including investigation and incident management

Question 6

Consulting Domain

Answer 6

Activities associated with supporting and enhancing the administration of law enforcement agencies

Question 7

KSAOs

Answer 7

The knowledge, skills, abilities, and other personal characteristics required to perform well as a law enforcement officer

Question 8

Job Analysis

Answer 8

The process of identifying the relevant knowledge, skills, and abilities required for various positions within a law enforcement agency

Question 9

Intrinsic Cognitive Load

Answer 9

The inherent complexity of the information police trainees are learning

Question 10

Extraneous Cognitive Load

Answer 10

The unnecessary demands placed on police trainees’ mental information-processing resources as a result of the learning materials and instructional methods used by instructors

Question 11

Germane cognitive load

Answer 11

The efforts of instructors to help trainees develop relevant schemas, cognitive structures, or “mental maps” they can use to organize the new information they acquire into meaningful concepts

Question 12

Situational Awareness

Answer 12

A cognitive process that involves understanding the immediate physical environment

Question 13

Criminal profiling

Answer 13

An investigative method that attempts to identify the personality, behavioural, and demographic characteristics of unknown criminal perpetrators based on an analysis of offence-related behaviours either in the case at hand or in similar cases

Question 14

Deductive Analytic Techniques

Answer 14

Methods of inferring characteristics of a perpetrator from a review of the evidence surrounding a particular offence or a series of offences

Question 15

Inductive Analytic Techniques

Answer 15

Methods of inferring a perpetrator’s characteristics from knowledge of general patterns of criminal behaviour, as reflected in scientific theory and research

Question 16

Criminal Investigative Analysis

Answer 16

the use of offence motivational typologies to infer offender characteristics

Question 17

Investigative Psychology

Answer 17

The use of psychological theories and offender typologies to analyze offence behaviour and personal characteristics of offenders

Question 18

Behavioural Evidence Analysis

Answer 18

A deductive approach in which profilers make rational inferences about the personal characteristics of perpetrators based directly on the facts of the case at hand

Question 19

Geographic Profiling

Answer 19

A method that uses criminological theory, quantitative analysis of geospatial data, and typologies of offender mobility to determine the personal characteristics of perpetrators