Consider the following story: “During the summers when Xavier was a young boy (around 8 years old), his grandfather would take him to northern Ontario to go fishing on weekends. Shortly after his grandfather died his family left Ontario. He was never able to clearly remember the fishing trips. When he was 30 years old he moved back to Ontario with his wife. One weekend they decided to take a trip to northern Ontario to spend the weekend at a resort on one of Ontario’s many lakes. When they got out of the car, they were overwhelmed by the aromatic smell of the trees in the heavily wooded area by the lake. Suddenly, memories of the wonderful weekend fishing trips with his grandfather came flooding back to the him.”

Discuss the following questions:

Is this an example of a repressed memory? If not, why not?

If it’s not a repressed memory, then what is it? What accounts for the sudden re-emergence of this buried memory?

Could this account for other, more traumatic, kinds of “repression” as well?

Bisphenol a (often called bpa) is a chemical found in products that people use every day, from water bottles to food containers to children's toys. unfortunately, bpa leaches out of its many products and makes its way into our bodies. what are the health effects of bpa exposure? ongoing research is finding that elevated exposure to bpa can affect a wide variety of developmental and physiological processes, but one of the first studies of bpa's health effects came about because of a simple mistake in the lab. at a laboratory at case western reserve university in 1998, geneticist patricia hunt was making a routine check of her female lab mice. as she extracted and examined developing eggs from the ovaries, she began to wonder what had gone wrong. she noticed that many of the eggs showed problems with their chromosomes, and some had irregular amounts of genetic material, which can lead to miscarriages and birth defects in mammals. she learned that a lab assistant had mistakenly washed the plastic mouse cages and water bottles with a harsh soap, releasing bpa from the plastic. knowing that bpa is an endocrine disruptor, a chemical that can enter organisms and mimic hormones, hunt set out to discover whether it had adversely affected her mice.

Regarding most of the narrator’s story, which word best describes the tone?

Which kind of worm has a closed circulatory system? a planarian b fluke c pinworm d an earthworm