Arrange the following words in a meaningful order: ( Desire(4), Interest(1),…

2019

Arrange the following words in a meaningful order: ( Desire(4), Interest(1), Paying attention(3), Doing work(2) )

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  1. A.

    3,1,4,2

  2. B.

    3,2,1,4

  3. C.

    4,2,1,3

  4. D.

    1,3,4,2

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Correct answer: A

Concept: A “meaningful order” question of this kind is built on a well-known real-world behavioural sequence: an initial trigger draws attention to something, that attention grows into interest, sustained interest deepens into a desire to engage further, and that desire culminates in the action of actually doing the work. This attention → interest → desire → action progression is a long-established, widely used model for describing how engagement with something develops into action (the same structure underlies the classic AIDA behavioural-response sequence), and it is the standard basis for this reasoning-question type.

Application: Map each labelled word onto its stage in that chain (each word keeps its fixed label: Interest = 1, Doing work = 2, Paying attention = 3, Desire = 4):

  1. Paying attention (3): the initial trigger — nothing can be engaged with before it is first noticed.

  2. Interest (1): once attention is drawn, curiosity about the subject develops.

  3. Desire (4): sustained interest deepens into a wanting to engage further.

  4. Doing work (2): the desire culminates in the actual action.

Reading off the labels in this order gives the sequence 3, 1, 4, 2.

Cross-check: This matches the standard attention → interest → desire → action behavioural sequence, and each stage here is the direct trigger for the one after it — no stage can sensibly precede its own cause, so 3, 1, 4, 2 is the internally consistent chain.

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