Question

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.
1. Living things—animals and plants—typically exhibit correlational structure. 
2. Adaptive behavior depends on cognitive economy, treating objects as equivalent. 
3. The information we receive from our senses, from the world, typically has structure and order, and is not arbitrary.
4. To categorize an object means to consider it equivalent to other things in that category, and different—along some salient dimension—from things that are not.

• A. 2341
• B. 1342
• C. 2431
• D. 1324

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

The sentences provided discuss adaptive behavior, making sentence 2 the most appropriate beginning for the paragraph. It asserts that adaptive behavior relies on cognitive economy, meaning minimizing thinking and information processing effort by treating objects as equivalent. Sentence 4 further details what 'treating objects as equivalent' entails, making it the logical continuation after sentence 2. Among the remaining sentences, sentence 3 logically follows 2 as it explains that the information received from the world has both structure and order, introducing the concept of 'structure' in the living world. Finally, sentence 1 complements sentence 3. Therefore, the correct order is 2431.