Answer:
it would affect her brain power
Explanation:
In “The Devil and Tom Walker” Irving is saying that the values in American society lie in the wrong place chosing wealth and financial prosperity over the well-being of others.
Irving sees America becoming greedy and warns the reader not to follow Tom Walkers ´s path that led him to exchange his soul to the devil blinded by his ambition for money.
This statement reflects the popular themes of individualism in the romantic era. The American romantics believed that a man's choices decided his fate. Washington Irving shows how Tom chooses the wrong direction that led him astray from the true values of humanity.
The speech-thought differential is the difference between how fast you think and how fast the speaker talks.
This "thought-speech gap" or "listening gap" means that the brain has extra capacity and WILL process information using that extra capacity. For example, a listener can process a lot of non-verbal cues. Great listeners will observe such cues and use them to guide the conversation to fit their communication goals.
But the difference in how quickly people speak and how quickly they listen also creates an opportunity for the brain's cognitive biases to operate and shape the listener's perception. I've written before about some of the cognitive biases that can occur especially when listening. See the Listen Like a Lawyer blog posts here and here and here on cognitive biases such as the well-known confirmation bias.
Hence, the correct answer is Option A.
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