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1
Q

What makes us human and different from other living things?

    A.  Feelings
B.  Words
  	C.  Values
D.  Conscious
A

C. Values

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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

A. Walking the talk

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What is the core and challenge of police leadership?

Stating values

Behaving values

Recognizing values

Establishing values

A

Stating values

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How do strength-based leaders convey their values to their staff?

In writing

By setting the example

By everything they say and do

Verbally

A

By everything they say and do

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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

A

Compass, communications, purposes, and strengths

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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

A

Department places outcomes above core values

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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

A

Sets its compass towards serving its community

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What kind of values serve as a compass?

Ethical values

Moral values

Human values

Core values

A

Ethical values

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9
Q

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

A

By knowing your value system

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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

A

Once we understand one another’s value system

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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

A

They serve as a purpose and a path to reach that destiny

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12
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We should understand our own values because they underpin what?

Leadership strengths

Personality

Character

All of the above

A

All of the above

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13
Q

What type of people are strongly aware of and constantly use their strengths?

Low performers

Supervisors

Team players

Team leaders

A

Team leaders

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What type of people constantly ignore their strengths and focus on weaknesses?

Losers

Top performers

Winners

None of the above

A

Losers

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Whose responsibility is it to know our strengths and capitalize on them?

Department

Team member

Our self

Supervisor

A

Supervisor

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We lead others and ourselves according to our _______ value system.

Human

Core

Strength-based

Own

A

Strength-based

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17
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What is an example of a goal oriented value?

Leading

Strength

Jogging

Reputation

A

Reputation

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An enduring belief that a specific goal and means of attaining that goal are very important is the definition of ______.

Principles

Values

Character

Ethics

A

Values

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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

A

It must be a means, or acted on

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20
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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

A

Value system

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21
Q

What shapes broad patterns of human behavior?

DNA

Behavior patterns

Genetics

Psychology

A

Genetics

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22
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Which value-programming period is in the first six to seven years of life?

Socialization

Modeling

Imprinting

Encoding

A

Imprinting

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23
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Which value programming period is from the age of seven to fourteen?

Socialization

Modeling

Imprinting

Encoding

A

Modeling

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24
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Which value-programming period is from the age of about thirteen to twenty?

Socialization

Modeling

Imprinting

Encoding

A

Socialization

25
Q

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

A

Imprinting

26
Q

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

A

None of the above

Mother, then with Father and important others around the child

27
Q

Which models in our lives are significant?

Parent

Supervisor

Team member

Hero

A

Hero

28
Q

Which period is a vital period?

Socialization

Modeling

Imprinting

Encoding

A

Modeling

29
Q

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

A

From about age thirteen to twenty

30
Q

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

A

Socialization

31
Q

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

A

When we achieve full physical maturity

32
Q

At what age does our value system lock in?

19

20

21

22

A

20

33
Q

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

A

Traumatic event

34
Q

The common denominator of significant emotional events (SEEs) is a challenge or disruption to our past behavior patterns and values.

True

False

A

False

The common denominator of significant emotional events (SEEs) is a challenge or disruption to our PRESENT behavior patterns and values.

35
Q

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

A

SEEs actually change our gut-level value system

36
Q

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

A

The closer to the early programming periods

37
Q

What determines whether SEEs are positive or negative for us?

How traumatic the event

Significance

How we cope

All the above

A

How we cope

38
Q

What is the most difficult of transitions?

Reaching physical maturity

Adolescence

Modeling

Psychological growth

A

Psychological growth

39
Q

This difficult transition requires what?

Inner and outer circumstances

Outer circumstances

Inner circumstances

None of the above

A

Inner and outer circumstances

40
Q

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

A

The individual must have or acquire the psychological insight to know what will slake the driving satisfaction.

41
Q

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

A

When they possess all three of the three attributes

42
Q

How many things do our values influence?

6

10

14

20

A

10

43
Q

What acts as a psychological filter, influencing what we can and can’t see?

Paradigm

Standards

Motivators

Attitudes

A

Paradigm

44
Q

How many generations can a police organization have?

1

2

3

4

A

4

45
Q

How many, in broad categories, major sources of programming experiences for all of us are there?

3

5

7

9

A

7

46
Q

What acts as a set of standards that guides our conduct?

Value system

Core values

Morals

Conscious

A

Value system

47
Q

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

A

Value system

48
Q

What is another term for our individual code of conduct?

Value system

Core values

Morals

Conscious

A

Value system

49
Q

What assists us in making decisions?

Value system

Core values

Morals

Conscious

A

Value system

50
Q

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

A

They possess different values

51
Q

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

A

All the above

52
Q

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

A

Being an effective strength-based police leader

53
Q

What denotes a desire or actual movement toward an identified end?

Authority

Motivators

Attitudes

Thought provokers

A

Motivators

54
Q

What do our values influence?

Motive

Standards

Character

Attitudes

A

Attitudes

55
Q

What is the first most important decision you make on a daily basis?

Your character

Your attitude

Your standards

Your values

A

Your character

56
Q

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.

A

In view of the universality of attitudes, an understanding of their nature is essential for supervisors

57
Q

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

A

Your signature strengths

58
Q

We lead ourselves and others according to our

Character

Signature strengths

Attitudes

Value system

A

Value system

59
Q

Community oriented policing is truly known as

Citizen oriented policing

Value oriented policing

Reactive policing

None of the above

A

Value oriented policing

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