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Understanding Crowd Dynamics Quiz

Test your knowledge on the types of crowds and mob behavior with this comprehensive quiz. Designed for those interested in social dynamics, law enforcement, and public safety, this quiz challenges you to think critically about various crowd scenarios and the appropriate responses to them.

25 multiple choice questions
Assess your understanding of crowd behavior
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25 Questions6 MinutesCreated by AnalyzingCrowd57

A ____ mob is a group of strangers who organize themselves, using electronic media to gather together in public place; behave in a predetermined manner?

Expressive

Acquisitive

Flash

Aggressive

A ____ mob is a highly emotional charged crowd driven by fright and frantic behavior driving the crowd to seek safety.

Escape

Flash

Expressive

Aggressive

____ devices use a "low order explosive to create a light and sound that momentarily blinds and distracts subjects.

Hearing

Explosive

Distraction

Protester

The use of chemical agents should ONLY be deployed by officers ______ trained in their use and deployment.

Improperly

Specially

Properly

Uniqually

What type of crowd is “a conventional crowd or casual crowd that is characterized by the density of contact showing no significant group behavior, has little or no organization, no unity of purpose?”

Psychological

Physical

Expressive/agitated

Mob

A ______ crowd is "an assemblage of people who have a sustained common interest and respond emotionally to the same stimuli"? (ex: ball game, parade)

Sightseer/Sightseeing

Expressive/Agitated

Physical

Psychological

A ______ crowd is characterized by their "common bond...described as curiosity seekers, mostly cooperative, and sometimes anxious to assist"?

Expressive/agitated

Sightseer/sightseeing

Physical

Mob

_____ crowds are an "unorganized group of people willing to be led into lawlessness but hesitate to act because it lacks organization, courage, unity; they are noisy, willing to threaten and taunt/harass police."

Mob

Sightsee/sightseeing

Expressive/agitated

Psychological

What type of crowd is “under the stimulus of intense excitement and agitation, lose their sense of reason”?

Psychological

Physical

Mob

Expressive/agitated

A ____ is considering a type of crowd that is a riot under NC law.

Mob

Psychological

Sightseer/sightseeing

Expressive/agitated

Officers should ____ the crowd as soon as possible to reduce social and psychological influences of the crowd.

Join

Disperse

Identify

Monitor

In a non-violent/passive protest, law enforcement roles and responsibilities in communication and liaisons should do what?

Identify the leaders

Disperse

Block the crowd

Fight back

In smaller agency or the initial officer that are caught offguard by crowds, which of the following is NOT an additional use of mini-formation as a responses?

Rescue teams

Special arrest teams

Squad

Special dispersal teams

_____ formation is good for "offensive formation use to penetrate and split the crowd."

Line

Diamond

Wedge

Square

All of the following is a tactic for countering social/psychological influences to reduce the influence of the crowd and reduce the number EXCEPT:

Photography and video to take away anonymity

Call people by name if they are known

Have a dispersal/backup team formed close by the scene

Pulling back the number of officers present from the scene

Which of the following is NOT a type of disturbance that may be confronted by law enforcement officers?

Labor disputes

Idealistic protest

Mass demonstration

Challengers

All of the following is a type of chemical agent used by law enforcement agencies for crowd control EXCEPT:

CN - disperse crowds

OC - arrest teams

HC - smoke/eye irratation

CR - inhale

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