PSYCH 100B
Research Methods in Psychology
Description: Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours. Enforced requisite: course 10, with grade of C or better. Introduction to research methods and critical analysis in psychology. Lecture and laboratory topics include experimental and nonexperimental research methods, statistical design and analysis as applied to a broad range of basic and applied research issues. May be repeated once for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Spring 2020 - I took this class as P/NP and I highly recommend this for everyone! I messed up on one assignment and scored one SD below the section's mean and that's when I knew I wouldn't get any A. This class is so ridiculously competitive; weighting your grade based on the scores of others in your class is extremely unfair. You have to beat all of your classmates by a significant margin in every single section assignment as well as kill your final paper to have a chance at an A. I messed up on one and even though the rest went really well, I knew I wouldn't get an A. There are lab participation points, which is basically answering questions during lab. This is where people get strangely competitive... The lecture portion is fairly straightforward. It was recorded ahead of time and the prof chose to make them even longer than class time usually was, they were often around the 2 hour mark. If you do the practice exams (all of them!!) and FaceTime a friend, you can expect a mid 90s grade. Prof adjusted the class for pandemic by weighing the lecture portion of the class as 40% and section as 60%, and based on protests by making the lecture exam portion the higher of your two exam grades. Another assignment that was due at the end of the week was graded due to completion only.
Spring 2020 - I took this class as P/NP and I highly recommend this for everyone! I messed up on one assignment and scored one SD below the section's mean and that's when I knew I wouldn't get any A. This class is so ridiculously competitive; weighting your grade based on the scores of others in your class is extremely unfair. You have to beat all of your classmates by a significant margin in every single section assignment as well as kill your final paper to have a chance at an A. I messed up on one and even though the rest went really well, I knew I wouldn't get an A. There are lab participation points, which is basically answering questions during lab. This is where people get strangely competitive... The lecture portion is fairly straightforward. It was recorded ahead of time and the prof chose to make them even longer than class time usually was, they were often around the 2 hour mark. If you do the practice exams (all of them!!) and FaceTime a friend, you can expect a mid 90s grade. Prof adjusted the class for pandemic by weighing the lecture portion of the class as 40% and section as 60%, and based on protests by making the lecture exam portion the higher of your two exam grades. Another assignment that was due at the end of the week was graded due to completion only.
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Ok, here's the deal. Her lectures are unorganized and she talks faster than you can write. She doesn't explain concepts clearly and her tests are confusing as hell. The worst thing about the class is the MASTER TA. This guy thinks he is god, he doesn't answer ANY of your questions, doesn't want to help you at all, and makes the class 35 times less enjoyable. You decide....
Ok, here's the deal. Her lectures are unorganized and she talks faster than you can write. She doesn't explain concepts clearly and her tests are confusing as hell. The worst thing about the class is the MASTER TA. This guy thinks he is god, he doesn't answer ANY of your questions, doesn't want to help you at all, and makes the class 35 times less enjoyable. You decide....
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