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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

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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

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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

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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

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Ethical values

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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

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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

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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

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

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We should understand our own values because they underpin what?

Leadership strengths

Personality

Character

All of the above

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All of the above

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

Low performers

Supervisors

Team players

Team leaders

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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

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Supervisor

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

Human

Core

Strength-based

Own

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Strength-based

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What is an example of a goal oriented value?

Leading

Strength

Jogging

Reputation

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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

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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

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It must be a means, or acted on

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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

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Value system

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What shapes broad patterns of human behavior?

DNA

Behavior patterns

Genetics

Psychology

A

Genetics

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

Socialization

Modeling

Imprinting

Encoding

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Imprinting

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

Socialization

Modeling

Imprinting

Encoding

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Modeling

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

Socialization

Modeling

Imprinting

Encoding

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Socialization

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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
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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
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Which models in our lives are significant? Parent Supervisor Team member Hero
Hero
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Which period is a vital period? Socialization Modeling Imprinting Encoding
Modeling
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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
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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
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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
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At what age does our value system lock in? 19 20 21 22
20
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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What determines whether SEEs are positive or negative for us? How traumatic the event Significance How we cope All the above
How we cope
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What is the most difficult of transitions? Reaching physical maturity Adolescence Modeling Psychological growth
Psychological growth
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This difficult transition requires what? Inner and outer circumstances Outer circumstances Inner circumstances None of the above
Inner and outer circumstances
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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.
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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
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How many things do our values influence? 6 10 14 20
10
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What acts as a psychological filter, influencing what we can and can’t see? Paradigm Standards Motivators Attitudes
Paradigm
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How many generations can a police organization have? 1 2 3 4
4
45
How many, in broad categories, major sources of programming experiences for all of us are there? 3 5 7 9
7
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What acts as a set of standards that guides our conduct? Value system Core values Morals Conscious
Value system
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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
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What is another term for our individual code of conduct? Value system Core values Morals Conscious
Value system
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What assists us in making decisions? Value system Core values Morals Conscious
Value system
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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
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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
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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
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What denotes a desire or actual movement toward an identified end? Authority Motivators Attitudes Thought provokers
Motivators
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What do our values influence? Motive Standards Character Attitudes
Attitudes
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What is the first most important decision you make on a daily basis? Your character Your attitude Your standards Your values
Your character
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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
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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
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We lead ourselves and others according to our Character Signature strengths Attitudes Value system
Value system
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Community oriented policing is truly known as Citizen oriented policing Value oriented policing Reactive policing None of the above
Value oriented policing

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