TIPS Certification | Exam Prep Questions and
Answers | 100% Verified
• Behavioral Cues of Intoxication -✓✓inhibitions
impaired judgement
slowed reactions
loss of coordination
• inhibitions -✓✓relaxed and talkative + could display mood swings.
• Judegement -✓✓overly friendly, dancing or singing
• reactions -✓✓thinking process has been affected.
glassy/unfocused eyes. slurred speech . lost their train of thought
• coordination -✓✓spill drinks, stumble, stagger. may have a difficult time handling their
silverware.
• Intoxication Rate Factors -✓✓*affect how quickly a person becomes intoxicated and
displays behavioral cues.
size, gender, rate of consumption, strength of the drink, drug use, food intake.
• size -✓✓larger people may be able to drink more without being as affected as smaller
people
• gender -✓✓women are typically smaller, with a higher percentage of body fat, and
tend to become intoxicated faster than men
• rate of consumption -✓✓the faster a person drinks the alcohol, the more quickly he or
she will become intoxicated.
• strength of drink -✓✓a straight up drink will be absorbed most quickly. a drink diluted
with water will be absorbed more slowly.
* any carbonated mixer may increase the absorption rate.
• drug use -✓✓there is no way to predict how prescription and non prescription drugs
will react with alcohol.
*can have an unpredictable effect.
Answers | 100% Verified
• Behavioral Cues of Intoxication -✓✓inhibitions
impaired judgement
slowed reactions
loss of coordination
• inhibitions -✓✓relaxed and talkative + could display mood swings.
• Judegement -✓✓overly friendly, dancing or singing
• reactions -✓✓thinking process has been affected.
glassy/unfocused eyes. slurred speech . lost their train of thought
• coordination -✓✓spill drinks, stumble, stagger. may have a difficult time handling their
silverware.
• Intoxication Rate Factors -✓✓*affect how quickly a person becomes intoxicated and
displays behavioral cues.
size, gender, rate of consumption, strength of the drink, drug use, food intake.
• size -✓✓larger people may be able to drink more without being as affected as smaller
people
• gender -✓✓women are typically smaller, with a higher percentage of body fat, and
tend to become intoxicated faster than men
• rate of consumption -✓✓the faster a person drinks the alcohol, the more quickly he or
she will become intoxicated.
• strength of drink -✓✓a straight up drink will be absorbed most quickly. a drink diluted
with water will be absorbed more slowly.
* any carbonated mixer may increase the absorption rate.
• drug use -✓✓there is no way to predict how prescription and non prescription drugs
will react with alcohol.
*can have an unpredictable effect.
