OPOTA PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS
WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS {
GRADED A+}
Abduction - ✔✔Placed in fear
Explain the relationship between a SPO and a test question - ✔✔The test question
must respond directly to an SPO and every SPO may be the basis of a test question
Explain the ultimate reason for law enforcement training - ✔✔To be able to
protect the life and property of yourself and the public
4511 - ✔✔Traffic Laws - operation of motor vehicles
4513 - ✔✔Equipment Violations
4549 - ✔✔Criminal Traffic section
4510 - ✔✔Covers driver's license suspensions
,List a Peace officers main goals - ✔✔-enforce laws
-preserve the peace
-prevent crimes
-protect civil rights and liberties
-provide services
Explain the factors necessary for the commission of a crime - ✔✔Opportunity,
Ability, and Desire
State the purpose of the Bill of Rights - ✔✔-Protect an individual's freedoms
-Prevent the government from interfering in protected rights
Laws are designed to - ✔✔-Maintain order
-enhance predictability
-promote orderly social change
-sustain individual rights
-identify wrongdoers
-mandate punishment
,Describe the major components of the criminal justice system - ✔✔Law
enforcement, courts, corrections
Identify the relationship between race, genetics, and physical characteristics -
✔✔Race is a modern concept used to classify people as similar, observable
physical characteristics, it is not based on genetics.
humans are genetically similar of all species, there is no distinct genetic profile that
completely distinguishes one so called race from another.
The connection between in-groups and out-groups and police legitimacy -
✔✔Some individuals interpret their encounters with police in terms of their
groups societal position rather than the immediate circumstance of the police
contact
Types of Racism - ✔✔-Individual
-Interpersonal
-Institutional
-Structural
Two types of Bias - ✔✔Explicit bias and implicit bias - common characteristics
, • Everyone possesses them
• They have real-world effects on behavior
• They can relate, for example, to race, religion, gender, sexuality, disability,
height, weight, or age
Explicit bias - conscious preference (positive or negative) for a social category
Implicit bias - preference (positive or negative) for a social category based on
stereotypes or attitudes that we hold and tend to develop early in life and that
operate outside of our awareness
Two modes of thinking - ✔✔Automatic (System 1)
- unconscious
-effortless
-automatic
-uses associative memory
-very fast
More deliberative (System 2)
-conscious
WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS {
GRADED A+}
Abduction - ✔✔Placed in fear
Explain the relationship between a SPO and a test question - ✔✔The test question
must respond directly to an SPO and every SPO may be the basis of a test question
Explain the ultimate reason for law enforcement training - ✔✔To be able to
protect the life and property of yourself and the public
4511 - ✔✔Traffic Laws - operation of motor vehicles
4513 - ✔✔Equipment Violations
4549 - ✔✔Criminal Traffic section
4510 - ✔✔Covers driver's license suspensions
,List a Peace officers main goals - ✔✔-enforce laws
-preserve the peace
-prevent crimes
-protect civil rights and liberties
-provide services
Explain the factors necessary for the commission of a crime - ✔✔Opportunity,
Ability, and Desire
State the purpose of the Bill of Rights - ✔✔-Protect an individual's freedoms
-Prevent the government from interfering in protected rights
Laws are designed to - ✔✔-Maintain order
-enhance predictability
-promote orderly social change
-sustain individual rights
-identify wrongdoers
-mandate punishment
,Describe the major components of the criminal justice system - ✔✔Law
enforcement, courts, corrections
Identify the relationship between race, genetics, and physical characteristics -
✔✔Race is a modern concept used to classify people as similar, observable
physical characteristics, it is not based on genetics.
humans are genetically similar of all species, there is no distinct genetic profile that
completely distinguishes one so called race from another.
The connection between in-groups and out-groups and police legitimacy -
✔✔Some individuals interpret their encounters with police in terms of their
groups societal position rather than the immediate circumstance of the police
contact
Types of Racism - ✔✔-Individual
-Interpersonal
-Institutional
-Structural
Two types of Bias - ✔✔Explicit bias and implicit bias - common characteristics
, • Everyone possesses them
• They have real-world effects on behavior
• They can relate, for example, to race, religion, gender, sexuality, disability,
height, weight, or age
Explicit bias - conscious preference (positive or negative) for a social category
Implicit bias - preference (positive or negative) for a social category based on
stereotypes or attitudes that we hold and tend to develop early in life and that
operate outside of our awareness
Two modes of thinking - ✔✔Automatic (System 1)
- unconscious
-effortless
-automatic
-uses associative memory
-very fast
More deliberative (System 2)
-conscious
