Psychology of Policing Exam Bank
Course Introduction
This course examines the psychological principles and processes underlying police work, focusing on the application of psychology to law enforcement practices. Topics include police selection and training, stress and coping strategies, decision-making under pressure, use of force, interactions with diverse communities, and ethical dilemmas faced by officers. The course also explores the impact of organizational culture, police-community relations, and factors that influence officer behavior and mental health. By integrating research and real-world case studies, students gain insights into how psychological theories and methods can enhance policing effectiveness and community trust.
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Introduction to Forensic Psychology Research and Application 5th Edition by Curtis R. Bartol
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Forensic Psychology
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Q1) In their study of APA-accredited doctoral programs, Magaletta et al. (2013) found that graduate schools failed to adequately prepare students for which forensic psychology subspecialty?
A) legal
B) family
C) correctional
D) juvenile
Answer: C
Q2) The term LPA refers to ______.
A) a person with a master's degree in psychology who has received clinical training and is licensed
B) psychologists with PhDs who have gained wide recognition in the field
C) social workers who are licensed as therapists and work in a forensic setting
D) undergraduate students who work as assistants in an in-patient psychiatric hospital
Answer: A
Q3) This text focuses on the various fields of forensic science.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Police and Public Safety Psychology
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Q1) Which program is often considered a form of racial/ethnic profiling?
A) Stop and Frisk
B) Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
C) Community-Oriented Policing
D) Peer Counseling
Answer: A
Q2) Which test has been found to be the most valid for the selection of law enforcement personnel?
A) the IPI
B) the CPI
C) the MMPI-2
D) the 16-PF
Answer: C
Q3) The strongest reason for police suicide involves post-shooting traumatic reactions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Psychology of Investigations
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Q1) Which type of profiling is often performed for insurance purposes?
A) geographical profiling
B) suspect-based profiling
C) juvenile analysis
D) psychological autopsy
Answer: D
Q2) Jacob was a 23-year-old male with a history of depression who died after jumping from the third floor of the Pine Hills indoor mall. The death occurred on a Saturday morning and many shoppers witnessed the entire incident. Which type of psychological autopsy will most likely be performed on Jacob?
A) equivocal death autopsy
B) critical incident autopsy
C) physical reconstructive autopsy
D) suicide psychological autopsy
Answer: D
Q3) Hypnosis is a form of sleepwalking.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Consulting and Testifying
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Q1) Mental health court is a type of specialty court.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A not guilty plea sets the trial process in motion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Name two dynamic risk factors and two static risk factors associated with criminal behavior.
Q4) The term shadow jury refers to ______.
A) a group of people similar in demographics to persons on the actual jury
B) all of the potential jurors who were called but eventually rejected for jury duty
C) the standby or alternate jurors who listen to the evidence and may eventually be involved in the deliberation
D) jurors whose body language indicates they are leaning toward a guilty verdict
Q5) The process of scientific jury selection often includes focus groups and surveys.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Define and provide an example of an amicus curiae brief.
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Chapter 5: Consulting With Criminal Courts
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Q1) In United States v. Comstock, 2010, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could not hold violent sexual offenders beyond their prison sentence if they were mentally ill.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which U.S. Supreme Court case dealt with the forced medication of incompetent defendants?
A) Loughner v. U.S.
B) Sell v. U.S.
C) Colorado v. Connelly
D) Arizona v. Dusky
Q3) A 17-year-old offender is not eligible for the death penalty.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Civil commitment of sexually violent predators requires evidence of mental ______.
A) disorder
B) abnormality
C) disability
D) disease
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Chapter 6: Family Law and Other Forms of Civil Litigation
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Q1) Parental rights are not terminated when parents of young children are incarcerated.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Alex and Sam are working together on a divorce case that involves one minor child. Alex is a family law attorney representing one of the litigants and Sam is the forensic psychologist conducting the custody evaluation. Which component of Sam's evaluation will Alex find most important?
A) psychological testing of the child
B) psychological testing of the parents
C) recommendations concerning custodial arrangements
D) recommendations to collateral sources such as schools
Q3) In Troxel v. Granville (2000), the Supreme Court denied ______ a constitutional right to visit their minor relative.
A) legal parents
B) grandparents
C) incarcerated parents
D) siblings
Q4) Identify and briefly describe the three forms of outpatient civil commitment.
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Chapter 7: The Development of Delinquent and Criminal Behavior
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Q1) The terms antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy are synonymous. A)True
B)False
Q2) The research has strongly supported the reliability and validity of the PCL-R for distinguishing criminal psychopaths from criminal nonpsychopaths and for helping correctional psychologists in risk assessments of inmates.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Preliminary diffusion tensor imaging results indicate that adolescent males tend to outperform females on emotion identification and nonverbal reasoning.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ADHD causes antisocial behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The most complete official nationwide compilation of juvenile offending is the FBI's UCR.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 8: Psychology of Violence and Intimidation
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Q1) Spree murder has received the most research attention in recent years.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Many of the children at Pineview Middle School are unsure about their school's policy on bullying and do not report threats because they are afraid of repercussions from other students. This illustrates a ______ factor called ______.
A) family; tolerance for disrespectful behavior
B) individual; inequitable discipline
C) peer-related; inflexible culture
D) school-related; code of silence
Q3) UCR data indicate that ______ accounts for the smallest share of violent crime, whereas ______ accounts for the largest share of violent crime.
A) burglary; forcible rape
B) assault; nonnegligent homicide
C) rape; simple robbery
D) murder; aggravated assault
Q4) Compare and contrast spree murder, serial murder, and mass murder. What are the reasons the public has so little accurate knowledge of multiple murder?
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Chapter 9: Psychology of Sexual Assault
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Q1) Current research indicates that the typical Internet child molester ______.
A) is skilled at identifying unsuspecting victims
B) engages in deception to assault victims
C) has face-to-face sexual contact with victims more than once
D) has an extensive history of violent offending
Q2) Compared to those who rape adults, child molesters tend to be ______.
A) stronger
B) more intellectually disabled
C) older
D) less mentally disordered
Q3) Which key element do perpetrators of sexual assault, highly aggressive children, and violent persons all have in common?
A) history of victimization
B) distrust of women
C) deficits in information processing
D) misinterpretation of communication
Q4) The Groth rapist typology is based on the presumed motivations of offenders.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the role that rape myths play in sexual assault.
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Chapter 10: Forensic Psychology and the Victims of Crime
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Q1) Summarize the research on homicides of young children.
Q2) Compared to victims without disabilities, victimization rates of individuals with disabilities are ______.
A) much higher
B) much lower
C) underreported
D) overreported
Q3) Most Internet-initiated sex crimes consist of adult men who use the Internet to meet and entice underage teenagers into sexual meetings.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the most lucrative human trafficking enterprise?
A) involuntary domestic services
B) bonded labor
C) forced labor
D) sexual exploitation
Q5) Contrast the grieving process for survivors of homicidal death versus survivors of those who died nonviolently.
Q6) How does the diversity of the Hispanic population affect victimization data?
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Chapter 11: Family Violence and Child Victimization
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Q1) The human cognitive system is unlimited in its information processing capacity and has a unique ability to simultaneously attend to everything going on in the environment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Psychological distress experienced by clinicians as a result of working with traumatized victims is called ______.
A) vicarious traumatization
B) post-traumatic stress disorder
C) psychological variance
D) subversive reaction
Q3) Research suggests a strong relationship between pet abuse and child abuse.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which assessment instrument measures the extent of intimate partner violence?
A) Spousal Assault Risk Assessment
B) Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment
C) Conflict Tactics Scales
D) Domestic Violence Risk Appraisal Guide
Q5) Discuss three limitations of human memory.
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Chapter 12: Correctional Psychology in Adult Settings
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Q1) Dr. Fox is working with an inmate to help strengthen his coping skills after the death of his wife. Which category does the treatment goal fall under?
A) mental health stabilization
B) rehabilitation
C) behavior modification
D) death notification
Q2) Rapists and child molesters are the two sex offender groups that are most amenable to treatment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Choose one special population discussed in the chapter and describe one approach to treatment for that population.
Q4) Jails are typically operated by the federal government.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Most women are in prison because of drug or property offending.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How is recidivism measured?
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Chapter 13: Juvenile Justice and Corrections
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Q1) It is important that a forensic psychologist is both evaluator and treatment provider in juvenile competency situations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss Henggeler's model of multisystemic therapy including the treatment strategy used and the role of psychologists. What does the research suggest about the effectiveness of this model?
Q3) Research has found that compared to juveniles, adults are more susceptible to making false confessions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Black youths are detained at ______ times the rate of White youths.
A) two
B) four
C) six
D) eight
Q5) Residential placement facilities may house both offenders and non-offenders.
A)True
B)False
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