When a person drinks alcohol, which pair of driving abilities does the manual say are among the first to be affected?
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A.
Judgment and sight Correct
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B.
Reflexes and hearing
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C.
Balance and memory
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D.
Coordination and mood
The answer is "Judgment and sight"
The manual names judgment and sight as the first to go when a person drinks alcohol; slower reactions to sounds and misjudged speed follow from there. Option B is picked by drivers who carry "slow reactions" as the shorthand for drunk driving from public-safety messaging: the manual does list slower reactions, but as a follow-on after judgment and sight are affected.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. Reflexes and hearing
Slower reactions to sounds come later in the same manual sentence, as a consequence of the earlier impairment rather than one of the first effects. Applies the reflex-first framing from drunk-driving PSAs to the first-effects question, missing that the manual places reflexes after sight in the same sentence.
C. Balance and memory
Balance and memory are not the abilities the manual names in the first-effects sentence. Substitutes symptoms a bystander would notice in a stumbling person on foot for the pair the manual names for a driver at the wheel.
D. Coordination and mood
Coordination and mood come from the depressant table's alcohol row later in the chapter, not the first-effects sentence. Reads any alcohol effect the manual mentions as an answer to the first-effects question, without checking which sentence names the first two.
This question tests your knowledge of DUI & Impaired Driving in Texas. Source: Texas Driver Manual, "Chapter 10: Alcohol and Drug Impact on the Driving Ability," p.55..
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