Culture can be described as all of the following except
1. An ethnocentric, stressed, acculturated, and never-changing way of processing information.
2. Socially transmitted behavioral patterns, beliefs, and customs.
3. The basis of individual interpretation of experience and generation of behavior.
4. The ideas, values, and behaviors shared by members of a social group.
ANS: 1
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