Chapter 3 Flashcards
What makes us human and different from other living things?
A. Feelings B. Words C. Values D. Conscious
C. Values
What is one of the biggest challenges each of us face?
A. Walking the talk B. Saying the right words C. Teamwork D. Commitment
A. Walking the talk
What is the core and challenge of police leadership?
Stating values
Behaving values
Recognizing values
Establishing values
Stating values
How do strength-based leaders convey their values to their staff?
In writing
By setting the example
By everything they say and do
Verbally
By everything they say and do
What are four very critical functions of understanding human values?
Values, compass, purposes, and strengths
Compass, communications, values, and strengths
Values, compass, communications, and strengths
Compass, communications, purposes, and strengths
Compass, communications, purposes, and strengths
When is an organization vulnerable to violating community standards?
Department places outcomes above core values
Department places core values above outcomes
Supervisor places outcomes above core values
Supervisor places core values above outcomes
Department places outcomes above core values
How can a police agency reap long term rewards in the form of loyal citizens and positive community relations?
Sets its compass towards serving its employees
Sets its compass towards serving its community
Sets its compass towards serving its leaders
Sets its compass towards serving its team members
Sets its compass towards serving its community
What kind of values serve as a compass?
Ethical values
Moral values
Human values
Core values
Ethical values
When can you understand another’s set of values?
By knowing your value system
By knowing your leader’s value system
By establishing your value system
By your leader establishing a value system
By knowing your value system
When do we really communicate?
Once we understand our own value system
Once we understand one another’s value system
Once we trust our own value system
Once we trust one another’s value system
Once we understand one another’s value system
Why is it vital for police supervisors to understand and appreciate human values?
They serve as a purpose and a path to reach that destiny
They serve as our ethical values
They serve as a means or a guide to reach that destiny
They serve as our core values
They serve as a purpose and a path to reach that destiny
We should understand our own values because they underpin what?
Leadership strengths
Personality
Character
All of the above
All of the above
What type of people are strongly aware of and constantly use their strengths?
Low performers
Supervisors
Team players
Team leaders
Team leaders
What type of people constantly ignore their strengths and focus on weaknesses?
Losers
Top performers
Winners
None of the above
Losers
Whose responsibility is it to know our strengths and capitalize on them?
Department
Team member
Our self
Supervisor
Supervisor
We lead others and ourselves according to our _______ value system.
Human
Core
Strength-based
Own
Strength-based
What is an example of a goal oriented value?
Leading
Strength
Jogging
Reputation
Reputation
An enduring belief that a specific goal and means of attaining that goal are very important is the definition of ______.
Principles
Values
Character
Ethics
Values
There are three requirements for a person to hold a value. Which one of these is a true statement?
It must be a means, or acted on
It should be a means, or acted on
It must be random
It should be random
It must be a means, or acted on
An enduring organization of beliefs concerning preferable modes of conduct of end states of existence in a hierarchical ranking of relative importance is the definition of ___.
Value system
Values
Core values
Principles
Value system
What shapes broad patterns of human behavior?
DNA
Behavior patterns
Genetics
Psychology
Genetics
Which value-programming period is in the first six to seven years of life?
Socialization
Modeling
Imprinting
Encoding
Imprinting
Which value programming period is from the age of seven to fourteen?
Socialization
Modeling
Imprinting
Encoding
Modeling
Which value-programming period is from the age of about thirteen to twenty?
Socialization
Modeling
Imprinting
Encoding
Socialization
In addition to physical behavior development, a tremendous amount of mental and values development takes place during what value-programming period?
Socialization
Modeling
Imprinting
Encoding
Imprinting
The process of value identification is in what order?
Important others around the child, mother, and then with father
Father, mother, and then with important others around the child
Mother, important others around the child, and then with the father
None of the above
None of the above
Mother, then with Father and important others around the child
Which models in our lives are significant?
Parent
Supervisor
Team member
Hero
Hero
Which period is a vital period?
Socialization
Modeling
Imprinting
Encoding
Modeling
What ages does our social life become structured primarily in terms of our friends?
Up to age six or seven
From about age seven to fourteen
From about age fourteen to twenty
From about age thirteen to twenty
From about age thirteen to twenty
During what period do we define and integrate the values, beliefs, and standards of our particular culture into our own personalities?
Socialization
Modeling
Imprinting
Encoding
Socialization
When is our basic personality determined?
During adolescence
When we achieve full physical maturity
When we construct our internal value ideal
All of the above
When we achieve full physical maturity
At what age does our value system lock in?
19
20
21
22
20
Our values, while enduring, can be changed. How does this happen?
Traumatic event
By staying focused and determined
With dedication
By absorbing values from a diverse selection of models
Traumatic event
The common denominator of significant emotional events (SEEs) is a challenge or disruption to our past behavior patterns and values.
True
False
False
The common denominator of significant emotional events (SEEs) is a challenge or disruption to our PRESENT behavior patterns and values.
Which of the following statements is correct
SEEs simply modify our behavior
SEEs actually change our gut-level value system
External events simply modify our beliefs
External events change our gut-level behavior system
SEEs actually change our gut-level value system
When are SEEs more likely to cause a significant change?
The more traumatic the event
The further away from our early programming periods
The less dramatic the event
The closer to the early programming periods
The closer to the early programming periods
What determines whether SEEs are positive or negative for us?
How traumatic the event
Significance
How we cope
All the above
How we cope
What is the most difficult of transitions?
Reaching physical maturity
Adolescence
Modeling
Psychological growth
Psychological growth
This difficult transition requires what?
Inner and outer circumstances
Outer circumstances
Inner circumstances
None of the above
Inner and outer circumstances
A person must possess three attributes if he or she is to make a substantial psychological step forward. Which statement is correct?
The individual must be deeply discouraged.
The individual must possess much psychological growth
The individual must have or acquire the psychological insight to know what will slake the driving satisfaction.
The individual must have the ability for psychological growth
The individual must have or acquire the psychological insight to know what will slake the driving satisfaction.
When will a person have the motivation to change?
When they possess at least one of the three attributes
When they possess two of the three attributes
When they possess all three of the three attributes
When they recognize the need for change according to their value system
When they possess all three of the three attributes
How many things do our values influence?
6
10
14
20
10
What acts as a psychological filter, influencing what we can and can’t see?
Paradigm
Standards
Motivators
Attitudes
Paradigm
How many generations can a police organization have?
1
2
3
4
4
How many, in broad categories, major sources of programming experiences for all of us are there?
3
5
7
9
7
What acts as a set of standards that guides our conduct?
Value system
Core values
Morals
Conscious
Value system
What causes us to take a position or to abandon one previously adopted, predisposes us to accept or reject certain ideas or activities, gives us a sense of being right or wrong, aids us in making comparisons, acts as a basis from which we attempt to influence others, and affords us an opportunity to justify or rationalize our actions?
Value system
Core values
Morals
Conscious
Value system
What is another term for our individual code of conduct?
Value system
Core values
Morals
Conscious
Value system
What assists us in making decisions?
Value system
Core values
Morals
Conscious
Value system
When are individuals apt to conflict with one another?
They possess different beliefs
They possess different morals
They possess different standards
They possess different values
They possess different values
What is a consequential feeling of ranking the value of fairness highly when we see or experience unfair personnel practices?
Angry
Depressed
Threatened
All the above
All the above
What value provokes us into thinking about what means would best achieve the desired outcome?
Being a positive based supervisor
Wanting to resolve conflicts
Being an effective strength-based police leader
Having a high emotional intelligence
Being an effective strength-based police leader
What denotes a desire or actual movement toward an identified end?
Authority
Motivators
Attitudes
Thought provokers
Motivators
What do our values influence?
Motive
Standards
Character
Attitudes
Attitudes
What is the first most important decision you make on a daily basis?
Your character
Your attitude
Your standards
Your values
Your character
An understanding of attitudes, attitude formation, and attitude change is important for four reasons. Which one of these is one of the reasons?
An awareness of attitudes can assist you in understanding human behavior at work
In view of the universality of attitudes, an understanding of their nature is essential for supervisors
Good attitudes on the job assist supervisors
Attitudes have minimal influence on behavior.
In view of the universality of attitudes, an understanding of their nature is essential for supervisors
What are people most apt to mentioning first when they describe your character or your set of competencies?
Your signature strengths
Your value system
Your emotional intelligence
Your individual differences
Your signature strengths
We lead ourselves and others according to our
Character
Signature strengths
Attitudes
Value system
Value system
Community oriented policing is truly known as
Citizen oriented policing
Value oriented policing
Reactive policing
None of the above
Value oriented policing
