PPCT UPDATED 2026 EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔One plus one theory - ✔✔advocates that officers can use one level of force higher
than the level of resistance used by the subject. puts more of an emphasis on the use of
empty hand control techniques to control lower level of resistance.
✔✔Levels of Resistance - ✔✔psychological intimidation, verbal noncompliance, passive
resistance, defensive resistance, active aggression and deadly force assault
✔✔Levels of Control - ✔✔Officer Presence, Verbal Direction, Soft Empty Hands, Hard
Empty Hands, Intermediate Weapons, and Deadly Force
✔✔principal of controlling resistive behavior - ✔✔Pain compliance, distraction
technique, balance displacement, motor dysfunction, stunning
✔✔Pain Compliance - ✔✔Is the use of stimulus pain to control resistive behavior
✔✔Stunning Technique - ✔✔stimulation of overwhelming sensory input that is sudden,
intense and unexpected
✔✔Distraction Technique - ✔✔The use of control techniques that weaken motor action
by changing the thought process
✔✔Balance Technique - ✔✔The use of control techniques that displace balance
through the principles of leverage
✔✔Motor dysfunction - ✔✔a control striking technique that overstimulates motor nerves,
resulting in a temporary muscle impairment
✔✔Reactionary Gap - ✔✔The distance an officer must keep between him- or herself
and the subject in order to react effectively against a sudden threat
Officer must be at least 6ft
✔✔Tactical Reactionary Options - ✔✔Penetrate and Disengage
✔✔Touch Pressure - ✔✔Touch pressure method of application is designed primarily to
create Pain Compliance, accomplished by touching the pressure point with the digital tip
of the fingers and then applying pressure until verbal commands are obeyed.
✔✔Touch pressure is classified as - ✔✔Soft Empty Hand Control
, ✔✔Touch pressure was designed to .... - ✔✔To control low level resistance, such as
passive of defensive resistance, but it is applicable for high level resistance when the
officer is close to the subject.
✔✔Striking - ✔✔Is used to cause a Motor Dysfunction of a nerve motor point
✔✔The Fluid Shockwave - ✔✔should be utilized when delivering a strike
✔✔Striking is classified as - ✔✔Hard Empty Hand Control
✔✔The Foundation of the fluid shockwave principle - ✔✔Is based upon using nerve
motor points as targets and using a method of striking that maximizes the transfer of
Kinetic Energy.
✔✔The efficiency of the fluid shockwave is dependent on - ✔✔Velocity
Mass
Energy Duration
✔✔If officer DO NOT alleviate the pressure.... - ✔✔The subject will either experience an
adrenal rush, resulting in increased resistance or become uncomfortable.
✔✔Variables that affect survival and combat training - ✔✔Development of a System
Instructional Delivery System
✔✔Elements of survival training - ✔✔Maximizing the achievement certainty
Minimizing the physical and mental energy costs of performance
Minimizing the time used
✔✔Motivational factors of learning - ✔✔Create need for skill, students believe that can
learn skill quick, students have positive training experience, positive field experience.
✔✔Neurological Basis of learning - ✔✔Static Training
Fluid Training
Dynamic Training
✔✔Static training - ✔✔is the stage of training where the student is introduced to the
physical components of a skill. The technique should be broken into three basic
components (the beginning, the middle, and the end), with each component being
practiced separately and in succession.
The skill should be practiced in slow motion, without any simulated resistance. When
the techniques are based upon gross motor skills, the average student should be able
to attain basic technique proficiency within 25 repetitions.
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔One plus one theory - ✔✔advocates that officers can use one level of force higher
than the level of resistance used by the subject. puts more of an emphasis on the use of
empty hand control techniques to control lower level of resistance.
✔✔Levels of Resistance - ✔✔psychological intimidation, verbal noncompliance, passive
resistance, defensive resistance, active aggression and deadly force assault
✔✔Levels of Control - ✔✔Officer Presence, Verbal Direction, Soft Empty Hands, Hard
Empty Hands, Intermediate Weapons, and Deadly Force
✔✔principal of controlling resistive behavior - ✔✔Pain compliance, distraction
technique, balance displacement, motor dysfunction, stunning
✔✔Pain Compliance - ✔✔Is the use of stimulus pain to control resistive behavior
✔✔Stunning Technique - ✔✔stimulation of overwhelming sensory input that is sudden,
intense and unexpected
✔✔Distraction Technique - ✔✔The use of control techniques that weaken motor action
by changing the thought process
✔✔Balance Technique - ✔✔The use of control techniques that displace balance
through the principles of leverage
✔✔Motor dysfunction - ✔✔a control striking technique that overstimulates motor nerves,
resulting in a temporary muscle impairment
✔✔Reactionary Gap - ✔✔The distance an officer must keep between him- or herself
and the subject in order to react effectively against a sudden threat
Officer must be at least 6ft
✔✔Tactical Reactionary Options - ✔✔Penetrate and Disengage
✔✔Touch Pressure - ✔✔Touch pressure method of application is designed primarily to
create Pain Compliance, accomplished by touching the pressure point with the digital tip
of the fingers and then applying pressure until verbal commands are obeyed.
✔✔Touch pressure is classified as - ✔✔Soft Empty Hand Control
, ✔✔Touch pressure was designed to .... - ✔✔To control low level resistance, such as
passive of defensive resistance, but it is applicable for high level resistance when the
officer is close to the subject.
✔✔Striking - ✔✔Is used to cause a Motor Dysfunction of a nerve motor point
✔✔The Fluid Shockwave - ✔✔should be utilized when delivering a strike
✔✔Striking is classified as - ✔✔Hard Empty Hand Control
✔✔The Foundation of the fluid shockwave principle - ✔✔Is based upon using nerve
motor points as targets and using a method of striking that maximizes the transfer of
Kinetic Energy.
✔✔The efficiency of the fluid shockwave is dependent on - ✔✔Velocity
Mass
Energy Duration
✔✔If officer DO NOT alleviate the pressure.... - ✔✔The subject will either experience an
adrenal rush, resulting in increased resistance or become uncomfortable.
✔✔Variables that affect survival and combat training - ✔✔Development of a System
Instructional Delivery System
✔✔Elements of survival training - ✔✔Maximizing the achievement certainty
Minimizing the physical and mental energy costs of performance
Minimizing the time used
✔✔Motivational factors of learning - ✔✔Create need for skill, students believe that can
learn skill quick, students have positive training experience, positive field experience.
✔✔Neurological Basis of learning - ✔✔Static Training
Fluid Training
Dynamic Training
✔✔Static training - ✔✔is the stage of training where the student is introduced to the
physical components of a skill. The technique should be broken into three basic
components (the beginning, the middle, and the end), with each component being
practiced separately and in succession.
The skill should be practiced in slow motion, without any simulated resistance. When
the techniques are based upon gross motor skills, the average student should be able
to attain basic technique proficiency within 25 repetitions.
