Amber Ankowski is known for her Psych 100B. She kept her exam practices from 100B to other courses like 133B, such that some exam questions are framed rather ambiguously. Besides, her lectures and slides may not always be helpful. One thing worth mentioning is that even though the final was made online and consisted of 100 T/F questions that she claimed to be 'significantly simplified', the median score was still lower than the midterm and I personally thought some of those questions were trickier than multiple choices. I know that reviews on Bruinwalk might be biased, like mine and the one who scored an A+, but most of my friends who have taken Ankowski's courses left extremely bad impressions on her. In my opinion, she's just trying everything possible to kill your GPA.

Professor Ankowsi is an absolute angel. She is one of the best lecturers I've had and considering this was an 8 AM class it made a huge difference. She is clear and engaging in the concepts she explains. The class is very straightforward and I could not recommend is more. 2 paper assignments, fairly simple, just had to formulate a paragraph response to 4 distinct questions pertaining to analyzing some outside material and related to cognitive development. The exams are pretty straight forward in my opinion. I just listened closely to the lectures and took diligent notes and I got an A on both exams. Of course it helps to read the textbook if you're confused but I found it to be time consuming and not worth it as long as you pay attention to every word Ankowski says (the slides posted aren't enough).

The class was clear and straightforward. Definitely pay attention to the labs because those got brought up a lot during the exams and make sure to work on the practice tests. Overall the professor was very nice and had a lot of energy with it being an 8am lecture.

This class was not really what I expected. Most of the reviews said this class was easy but it did not always feel that way. I will say that the grade distribution was great with 10% of our grade being participation (in person through iClicker and online discussion boards), 33% homework, 10% homework quizzes, 17% midterm, and 33% final exam (cumulative). The in-class participation was not bad - just a couple of iClicker questions during each lecture. They were not graded on accuracy, just completion. For the discussion board posts, you could either make your own or respond to someone else's (either way, you received the same credit). You only had to do this for 3 out of the 10 weeks, so if you did a substantive response/post for the first three weeks, you wouldn’t have to worry about it for the rest of the quarter. The homework assignments were a lot more length. It often required you to watch a movie or do an activity with at least three other people. This professor really did not like “fluffy” responses and preferred students get straight to the point when answering the questions on the homework. Usually, each homework assignment had 3-4 questions. She did not have a set word minimum or maximum but provided a rough guideline of 500 words for the whole homework assignment. These were graded pretty fairly, as long as the TA could tell you actually interacted with the material. Another big part of the homework assignment was the reading “Bringing Up Bookmonsters”. It is a book that was written by the professor and her husband. Overall, it was really interesting and fairly intuitive. She assigns part of the book throughout the quarter so that you read through the whole thing by the end. Sometimes there would be questions about it in the homework assignments. The lowest-graded homework assignment was dropped. There were also weekly quizzes. These were open-book/note, had 5 questions, and had a 10-minute time-frame to be completed. Some of the questions I found a bit tricky, but they were overall very doable. The lowest-graded quiz gets dropped. The “Bringing Up Bookmonsters” book was also mentioned in these quizzes. The midterm was a little daunting. I think it was because we had to take it at 8:00 am but it was overall very fair. The exam was a mixture of multiple-choice and free-response questions. All material covered up to that point was fair game. A lot of students were not a fan of the fact that the professor used questions that had “All of the Above” or “None of the Above” but they were not too bad and did not show up that much (from what I recall). The TAs also hosted a review session for the midterm which was SUPER helpful (it was recorded as are lectures). The final exam was what I was really worried about. It was cumulative and covered everything we had encountered throughout the quarter (all lectures, all readings, all films, the entire book “Bringing Up Bookmonsters”, lecture videos, etc.). This one felt really hard to study for but it helped that the professor emphasized that the second half of the quarter was going to be emphasized on the exam. However, when I finally got the exam, the questions were not as intricate and more so discussed the broader lessons from the course. No extra credit is offered and there is no curve (grades are rounded up or down based on the final score; .50 and above rounding up and .49 and below rounding down). Overall, I would say that although this class is somewhat forgiving, I did feel a lot of pressure to secure the grade I wanted. Despite how challenging I thought it was at times, I did really enjoy this class. It taught me a lot and I took away a lot of info that I could apply to my personal life. I would recommend this class!

Attendance is mandatory (you’ll be deducted participation points for not showing up to class) and the material can feel sort of slow at times. The class is easy though!

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Doing well in this class is possible, but requires a huge amount of time and effort; the class is 6 units for a reason. I lucked out with a decent TA, but honestly the key to doing well in this class is to study your ASS OFF for those exams. Lecture is weighed more in your overall grade than lab, so try to dedicate more energy to it.
Bad news: you have to read the textbook to do well on the exams. Ankowski will have about 3-4 questions on the exam straight from the textbook. Honestly, I didn't read the textbook throughout the quarter but dedicated one day studying before each exam to reading all of the chapters the test would cover. I took those notes, re-did lecture notes, and went to office hours with any questions I had. Good luck!

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