CH 3 + 4 Police Psychology Flashcards
main responsibilites of police psychologists
- giving police, their agencies and other associated ppl services
- ensuring that that hire eligible ppl
- give psyc Ed
- give support on how police can do their job good
Police Psyc Now~
Assess = fitness for the job
Intervention = helping with officer well-being
Operational = helping with criminal profiling and threat assessment
Consultants = for like court
Police Psyc Job Anbalysis
to see if person has what it takes to be officer
KSAO = knowledge, skills, abilities, O-PERSONAL characteristics
Cog skills = read, write, apply law
Fit enof physcioally
interpersonal skills , can talk, build rapport
have good motivation and moral
Situational Screening Police Tests
Foot Patrol = walking and assessing stuff around u
Clues Test = 10 mins to investigate BLUES CLUES
Bull Session = ur a bull and seeing how well u can interact with collegues - initiatoions
Some inventory screenings
MMPI = psychiatric stuff
CPI = general personality chracteristics
IPI = assessing if u actually aply law
Polygraph = before employment
post employment = mental health checks
Use of Force Training and Cog Load Theory probs
intrinsic cog load = its jsut generally really hard to process all the info given to trainees
extraneuous cog load = way too much info that requires lotta demand for the trainee to remmeber
germane cog load = traineees need appropriate schemas
2 Criminial Profiling technqieues
Deductive = looking at crime itself and what a typical perp wud do this typical crime
Inductive = loking at patterns of this behaviour and comparing how other perps wud do this crime but also thinking of the current perp
FBI investigation tech
similiar behaviour w similar motivation = similar perp
classify offense by looking at crime scene info
look at characteristics of offense circumstances
see if theres a crime “signature” like hannibal and the pieces of art
= all these will giv profile
