Which category of driver distraction does the Florida manual describe as taking your eyes off the road?
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A.
Manual
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B.
Cognitive
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C.
Sensory
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D.
Visual Correct
The answer is "Visual"
The manual pairs Visual directly with taking your eyes off the road. Manual (hands off the wheel) and Cognitive (mind off driving) fill out the other two slots on the same list; a test-taker who treats "eyes" as a sensory input reaches for C, but Sensory is not one of the three categories the manual names.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Manual
Manual distraction means taking your hands off the steering wheel, not your eyes off the road. Reads the label 'Manual' as covering any physical way a driver pulls away from the task, sliding eyes-off-the-road into the wrong bucket.
B. Cognitive
Cognitive distraction means thinking about anything other than driving. Picks the category that sounds most mental because a driver whose eyes wander feels like they have lost focus rather than lost sight of the road.
C. Sensory
Sensory is not one of the three categories the Florida manual lists. Substitutes the everyday word for sight because it sounds like the natural label for eyes-off-the-road, rather than checking the term the manual actually uses.
This question tests your knowledge of Distracted Driving in Florida. Source: Florida Driver Manual, "Before You Drive: Distracted Driving, Categories of Distraction," p.34..
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