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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
  • Suitable for students, educators, and professionals
25 Questions6 MinutesCreated by AnalyzingCrowd57
What type of mob will attack, riot, and terrorize others?
Aggressive
Acquisitive
Expressive
Flash
What type of mob will desire to acquire/attain something?
Aggressive
Acquisitive
Expressive
Flash
What type of mob expresses intense feelings or revelry?
Flash
Acquisitive
Aggressive
Expressive
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
Which of the following is NOT a type of formation?
"V" form
Line
Wedge
Diamond
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 "intended for heavy resistance and possible thrown objects."
Line
Wedge
Diamond
Circle
_____ 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
What is the KEY to stopping a riotous crowd?
Dispersal
Challenge
Arrest
Agreeing
All of the following are types of riot EXCEPT:
Race
Conventional
Organized/planned
Exceptional
A ____ riot is caused by the rampage of a spontaneously formed mob.
Guerrilla
Spontaneous
Conventional
Race
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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