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OPOTA Practice Test
1. Abduction: Placed in fear
2. Explain the relationship between a SPO and a test question: The test ques-tion must
respond directly to an SPO and every SPO may be the basis of a test question
3. Explain the ultimate reason for law enforcement training: To be able to protectthe life and
property of yourself and the public
4. 4511: Traffic Laws - operation of motor vehicles
5. 4513: Equipment Violations
6. 4549: Criminal Traffic section
7. 4510: Covers driver's license suspensions
8. List a Peace officers main goals: -enforce laws
-preserve the peace
-prevent crimes
-protect civil rights and liberties
-provide services
9. Explain the factors necessary for the commission of a crime: Opportunity,Ability, and
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Desire
10. State the purpose of the Bill of Rights: -Protect an individual's freedoms
-Prevent the government from interfering in protected rights
11. Laws are designed to: -Maintain order
-enhance predictability
-promote orderly social change
-sustain individual rights
-identify wrongdoers
-mandate punishment
12. Describe the major components of the criminal justice system: Law en-forcement,
courts, corrections
13. Identify the relationship between race, genetics, and physical character-istics: 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 thatcompletely
distinguishes one so called race from another.
14. The connection between in-groups and out-groups and police legitimacy-
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: Some individuals interpret their encounters with police in terms of their groupssocietal
position rather than the immediate circumstance of the police contact
15. Types of Racism: -Individual
-Interpersonal
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-Institutional
-Structural
16. 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 operateoutside of our awareness
17. Two modes of thinking: Automatic (System 1)
- unconscious
-effortless
-automatic
-uses associative memory
-very fast
More deliberative (System 2)
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