Defensive Tactics
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1. What Are the factors for deciding the Use of Deadly Force? - Correct Answer: Ability
Opportunity
Intent
2. Ability - Correct Answer: refers to the subject having the means to carry out his or
her intent to cause death or great bodily harm.
3. Opportunity - Correct Answer: means the subject is capable of acting on a plan to
cause death or great bodily harm to the officer or others.
4. Intent - Correct Answer: a reasonably perceived, imminent threat to an officer or
another person based on the subject's actions, behaviors, words, or other indicators.
5. Totality of circumstances - Correct Answer: a term the court uses to refer to all facts
and circumstances known to the officer at the time, or reasonably perceived by the
officer as the basis for, a use of force decision.
6. What are the two things that the court looks at to determine Totality of Circumstances? -
Correct Answer: Was the decision objectively reasonable.
, Was the decision legally justified.
7. Situational Factors for Totality of Circumstances - Correct Answer: • severity of the
crime
• subject is an immediate threat
• subject's mental or psychiatric history, if known to the officer
• subject's violent history, if known to the officer
• subject's combative skills
• subject's access to weapons
• innocent bystanders who could be harmed
• number of subjects versus number of officers
• duration of confrontation
• subject's size, age, weight, and physical condition
• officer's size, age, weight, physical condition, and defensive tactics expertise
• environmental factors, such as physical terrain, weather conditions, etc.
8. Survival Stress - Correct Answer: A measure of anxiety caused by an appraisal of a
stimulus that leads to an extreme state of arousal.
9. Appraisal - Correct Answer: The officer's evaluation and assignment of challenge or
threat value to a stimulus.
10. Arousal - Correct Answer: the officer's elevated mind-body state that occurs in the
presence of a perceived challenge or threat.
11. What are the four instinctual reactions to survival stress: - Correct Answer: fight,
flight, posture, and submit.
12. Submit - Correct Answer: To completely relinquish control to another.
, 13. Psychological Changes Under Stress - Correct Answer: •Activation of Limbic
System(part of brain controlling emotion & motivation)
•Activation of Fight or Flight Response by the Sympathetic Nervous System
•Domination of the Parasympathetic Nervous System by the Sympathetic Nervous
System for SELF PROTECTION
14. Limbic System - Correct Answer: (the parts of the brain that are especially focused
on emotion and motivation) that provides a survival response to the central nervous
system.
15. Sympathetic Nervous System - Correct Answer: the part of the autonomic nervous
system that is concerned especially with preparing the body to react to situations of
stress or emergency. This system activates what is often called the fight or flight
response.
16. Parasympathetic Nervous System - Correct Answer: sometimes called the rest and
digest system, is the part of the autonomic nervous system that is concerned with
controlling the body during normal, routine situations. Can be dominated by the
Sympathetic Nervous System for SELF PROTECTION
17. Physiological Changes Under Stress - Correct Answer: • Increase in heart rate and
respiration.
• Vasodilation
• Vasoconstriction
• Auditory Distortion
• Visual Distortion
• Loss of bladder and bowel control
• Increased Reaction Time
18. Vasodilation - Correct Answer: Blood flows into the larger muscle groups providing
oxygen to power flight and aid in escape.
Comprehensive Resource To Help You Ace 2026-2027
Exams Includes Frequently Tested Questions With
ELABORATED 100% Correct COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
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1. What Are the factors for deciding the Use of Deadly Force? - Correct Answer: Ability
Opportunity
Intent
2. Ability - Correct Answer: refers to the subject having the means to carry out his or
her intent to cause death or great bodily harm.
3. Opportunity - Correct Answer: means the subject is capable of acting on a plan to
cause death or great bodily harm to the officer or others.
4. Intent - Correct Answer: a reasonably perceived, imminent threat to an officer or
another person based on the subject's actions, behaviors, words, or other indicators.
5. Totality of circumstances - Correct Answer: a term the court uses to refer to all facts
and circumstances known to the officer at the time, or reasonably perceived by the
officer as the basis for, a use of force decision.
6. What are the two things that the court looks at to determine Totality of Circumstances? -
Correct Answer: Was the decision objectively reasonable.
, Was the decision legally justified.
7. Situational Factors for Totality of Circumstances - Correct Answer: • severity of the
crime
• subject is an immediate threat
• subject's mental or psychiatric history, if known to the officer
• subject's violent history, if known to the officer
• subject's combative skills
• subject's access to weapons
• innocent bystanders who could be harmed
• number of subjects versus number of officers
• duration of confrontation
• subject's size, age, weight, and physical condition
• officer's size, age, weight, physical condition, and defensive tactics expertise
• environmental factors, such as physical terrain, weather conditions, etc.
8. Survival Stress - Correct Answer: A measure of anxiety caused by an appraisal of a
stimulus that leads to an extreme state of arousal.
9. Appraisal - Correct Answer: The officer's evaluation and assignment of challenge or
threat value to a stimulus.
10. Arousal - Correct Answer: the officer's elevated mind-body state that occurs in the
presence of a perceived challenge or threat.
11. What are the four instinctual reactions to survival stress: - Correct Answer: fight,
flight, posture, and submit.
12. Submit - Correct Answer: To completely relinquish control to another.
, 13. Psychological Changes Under Stress - Correct Answer: •Activation of Limbic
System(part of brain controlling emotion & motivation)
•Activation of Fight or Flight Response by the Sympathetic Nervous System
•Domination of the Parasympathetic Nervous System by the Sympathetic Nervous
System for SELF PROTECTION
14. Limbic System - Correct Answer: (the parts of the brain that are especially focused
on emotion and motivation) that provides a survival response to the central nervous
system.
15. Sympathetic Nervous System - Correct Answer: the part of the autonomic nervous
system that is concerned especially with preparing the body to react to situations of
stress or emergency. This system activates what is often called the fight or flight
response.
16. Parasympathetic Nervous System - Correct Answer: sometimes called the rest and
digest system, is the part of the autonomic nervous system that is concerned with
controlling the body during normal, routine situations. Can be dominated by the
Sympathetic Nervous System for SELF PROTECTION
17. Physiological Changes Under Stress - Correct Answer: • Increase in heart rate and
respiration.
• Vasodilation
• Vasoconstriction
• Auditory Distortion
• Visual Distortion
• Loss of bladder and bowel control
• Increased Reaction Time
18. Vasodilation - Correct Answer: Blood flows into the larger muscle groups providing
oxygen to power flight and aid in escape.
