When assessing a brain-injured patient's inconsistent performance, the nurse recognizes that egocentricity increases the potential for:
a. learning.
b. depression.
c. anger and frustration.
d. intense concentration.
C
Egocentricity of brain-injured patients makes them more prone to anger and frustration because they reference everything to themselves.
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