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I love Professor Clark! A lot of reviews say that she talks as if her students were babies, but I didn't feel that at all. I think she broke down the material into processable pieces, especially for introductory psychology students. This was my first time taking a psych class (ever), and it honestly made me more interested in the field.
She uses clickers for participation, meaning you have to attend lecture. Most of her clicker questions are based solely on participation, but there are a couple that are based on correctness. She does drop the 3 (or 4, I can't remember) lowest clicker scores, which is nice!
I found her midterm really easy. I made flashcards on all the key terms and studied them a couple days in advance, and I think I only missed one question. She had 30 multiple choice questions and two short response questions, but I found them quite fair. There is a significant emphasis on the studies/articles she assigns, so I would read those over before the tests. I also attended the review session, and that was a really nice refresher on all the general information that was going to be on the test.
Clark also uses Piazza to communicate with her students (other than email). I had never used Piazza before, so I found it a little tedious to use, but she did answer any questions that came up on that interface. I didn't use Piazza at all and attended TA office hours instead, which were super helpful. I would usually just go when a lab/article analysis was due, and the TAs would help check my answers and make sure that I hit all the gradable points.
Professor Clark is honestly so amazing and sweet. She talks about her dog (who is super cute) and always answered my questions. I would definitely take this class again!
Professor Clark is a likable, bubbly professor who is happy to be there teaching. The workload is definitely not too much. However, both the midterm and the final were unnecessarily difficult. I reread the slides (multiple times) and used quizlets, studied for multiple days, and still did really poor on both. In this class, you can't afford to do poorly on the midterm or final because they are SO heavily weighted, which I do not like. I got 100% on everything else (labs, clicker questions, quizzes) and still got a C+ in the class. Good luck with the testing, I don't know what else I could have done/studied to improve my score, but otherwise she is nice.
If I wasn't a lazy bum this quarter this class definitely should've been an easy A. Although her lectures are a little tedious and boring, Professor Clark is extremely reliable and helpful.
Note: Write down everything from her lectures - and actually watch them! (Don't be like me) and it'll be an A!
She is very helpful, funny and engaging in her lectures. I highly recommend taking her, she makes Psych 10 easy to do.
Very easy teacher that transitioned well online. She had a very organized grading scale with clear instructions and due dates. A good amount of work but none of it was difficult, just time consuming. The group projects over Zoom were more fun and easy than you would think. I overall really enjoyed her class and her concise Powerpoints and outlines. The lectures are mandatory, but you have until Sunday to complete them and they are super easy. She does a really good job making you feel like you have academic support at all times.
Overall, this course is pretty chill. You would be hard-pressed to get anything less than an A- unless you aren't a good test-taker. The exams are pretty straightforward, no trick questions, so as long as you actually study, you should be fine.
There are weekly responses assigned on Tuesday and due Friday morning, which are pretty quick and easy to do -- usually it's either answering some study guide questions based on lecture content or reading a research paper and summarizing/reflecting on it. You can miss one weekly response assignment without penalty (might wanna save it for the end of the quarter when you're feeling lazy and/or burnt out from all your other classes and responsibilities :P)
There are sometimes clicker questions during lecture, but as long as you answer half of the questions posed in lecture, then you will get full clicker credit. The type of clicker you get doesn't matter.
Showing up to section and completing the worksheet is enough to get full participation points. Around midterm week and finals week you will spend the section coming up with review questions that are posted on Piazza. Sometimes really good questions students make up end up on the exam, so this is a good study tool to utilize besides the textbook and your notes.
The paper you have to write towards the end of the class isn't too bad, but don't leave everything to the last minute because it can get overwhelming.
Professor Clark planned out the class very well and communicated it so you would always know what was due when, she was also very helpful if we had questions and there were lots of TA's in this class so there was always someone to ask a question to. Your grade is made up of a midterm, final, and a few individual and group labs as well as a few article analyses. Some of the work was a little tedious and boring but it is a super introductory course so it makes sense.
Great class
//Professor//
-Professor Clarke is kind and very helpful if you approach her with any questions, both during office hours and after class. I never hesitated to ask her any questions at the time.
//Grading//
5% Clicker participation: so attendance is mandatory but questions are graded on completion and not on correctness.
10% Weekly assignments: There are 6-8 assignments (it varies) and you can opt not to do 1 of them. Each assignment is about 1 page and asks questions on the lecture or a supplemental research paper. They are generally pretty easy and if you've listened to the lectures/read the research paper you should be able to get full credit.
10% Discussion section activities: These were done in small groups during discussion section (so discussion section is mandatory) and were very easy. Essentially, the worksheet would require you to come up with an alteration of a study mentioned in previous lecture(s) and plot the hypothetical results. Several potential answers were given at the end of discussion and grading of the worksheets were based on effort and not correctness (after all, there were infinite correct answers).
15% Paper: A five page paper where compare a news article and the corresponding research paper on which the article was written and explain its relevance to the class and provide suggestions for a hypothetical follow-up study. This paper is decently challenging as it can be difficult to come up with a hypothetical follow-up study but if you run your idea by your TAs a few days before the assignment, you will be fine! Writing the rest of the paper is fairly easy.
25% Midterm exam and 35% Cumulative final exam: The exams were generally fair and focused on the main topics of the course. The exams were mostly multiple choice but there was a brief free response section (which was roughly 15-20% of the exam's value). To be honest, the TAs graded the free response questions fairly generously, so as long as you have a grasp of general ideas, you probably are fine. Free responses are graded blind to reduce bias.
//Material//
- I really hate cognitive psychology; I find it dull, boring, and completely uninteresting; but everyone will have different perspectives on the material. Despite this hatred, I still did well so if you're in the same boat, don't fret.
- Class is BruinCasted.
- The professor posts slides but they're generally very bare-bones so you have to take notes while listening.
//Overall// Kind/helpful professor and fair exams make-up for the short-fall of boring content. The "extra" components of the course like the discussion sections, paper, etc., while annoying and tedious, create a decent cushion for exam grades.
This class is super easy and guaranteed an A. She does kind of talk to us like we are children which I didn't really like. There is a lot of busywork, with every week having 2 lectures, either a quiz or an article analysis, and a lab. But they are very easy to get full points and the lowest one is dropped. The exams were pretty easy with little studying. They had multiple choice and 3 short answer questions (which were graded pretty easily). Overall, I would say write the definitions of everything she goes over, write the main takeaways from the labs and article analysis (she does test on those), and participate in your labs.
I love Professor Clark! A lot of reviews say that she talks as if her students were babies, but I didn't feel that at all. I think she broke down the material into processable pieces, especially for introductory psychology students. This was my first time taking a psych class (ever), and it honestly made me more interested in the field.
She uses clickers for participation, meaning you have to attend lecture. Most of her clicker questions are based solely on participation, but there are a couple that are based on correctness. She does drop the 3 (or 4, I can't remember) lowest clicker scores, which is nice!
I found her midterm really easy. I made flashcards on all the key terms and studied them a couple days in advance, and I think I only missed one question. She had 30 multiple choice questions and two short response questions, but I found them quite fair. There is a significant emphasis on the studies/articles she assigns, so I would read those over before the tests. I also attended the review session, and that was a really nice refresher on all the general information that was going to be on the test.
Clark also uses Piazza to communicate with her students (other than email). I had never used Piazza before, so I found it a little tedious to use, but she did answer any questions that came up on that interface. I didn't use Piazza at all and attended TA office hours instead, which were super helpful. I would usually just go when a lab/article analysis was due, and the TAs would help check my answers and make sure that I hit all the gradable points.
Professor Clark is honestly so amazing and sweet. She talks about her dog (who is super cute) and always answered my questions. I would definitely take this class again!
Professor Clark is a likable, bubbly professor who is happy to be there teaching. The workload is definitely not too much. However, both the midterm and the final were unnecessarily difficult. I reread the slides (multiple times) and used quizlets, studied for multiple days, and still did really poor on both. In this class, you can't afford to do poorly on the midterm or final because they are SO heavily weighted, which I do not like. I got 100% on everything else (labs, clicker questions, quizzes) and still got a C+ in the class. Good luck with the testing, I don't know what else I could have done/studied to improve my score, but otherwise she is nice.
If I wasn't a lazy bum this quarter this class definitely should've been an easy A. Although her lectures are a little tedious and boring, Professor Clark is extremely reliable and helpful.
Note: Write down everything from her lectures - and actually watch them! (Don't be like me) and it'll be an A!
She is very helpful, funny and engaging in her lectures. I highly recommend taking her, she makes Psych 10 easy to do.
Very easy teacher that transitioned well online. She had a very organized grading scale with clear instructions and due dates. A good amount of work but none of it was difficult, just time consuming. The group projects over Zoom were more fun and easy than you would think. I overall really enjoyed her class and her concise Powerpoints and outlines. The lectures are mandatory, but you have until Sunday to complete them and they are super easy. She does a really good job making you feel like you have academic support at all times.
Overall, this course is pretty chill. You would be hard-pressed to get anything less than an A- unless you aren't a good test-taker. The exams are pretty straightforward, no trick questions, so as long as you actually study, you should be fine.
There are weekly responses assigned on Tuesday and due Friday morning, which are pretty quick and easy to do -- usually it's either answering some study guide questions based on lecture content or reading a research paper and summarizing/reflecting on it. You can miss one weekly response assignment without penalty (might wanna save it for the end of the quarter when you're feeling lazy and/or burnt out from all your other classes and responsibilities :P)
There are sometimes clicker questions during lecture, but as long as you answer half of the questions posed in lecture, then you will get full clicker credit. The type of clicker you get doesn't matter.
Showing up to section and completing the worksheet is enough to get full participation points. Around midterm week and finals week you will spend the section coming up with review questions that are posted on Piazza. Sometimes really good questions students make up end up on the exam, so this is a good study tool to utilize besides the textbook and your notes.
The paper you have to write towards the end of the class isn't too bad, but don't leave everything to the last minute because it can get overwhelming.
Professor Clark planned out the class very well and communicated it so you would always know what was due when, she was also very helpful if we had questions and there were lots of TA's in this class so there was always someone to ask a question to. Your grade is made up of a midterm, final, and a few individual and group labs as well as a few article analyses. Some of the work was a little tedious and boring but it is a super introductory course so it makes sense.
//Professor//
-Professor Clarke is kind and very helpful if you approach her with any questions, both during office hours and after class. I never hesitated to ask her any questions at the time.
//Grading//
5% Clicker participation: so attendance is mandatory but questions are graded on completion and not on correctness.
10% Weekly assignments: There are 6-8 assignments (it varies) and you can opt not to do 1 of them. Each assignment is about 1 page and asks questions on the lecture or a supplemental research paper. They are generally pretty easy and if you've listened to the lectures/read the research paper you should be able to get full credit.
10% Discussion section activities: These were done in small groups during discussion section (so discussion section is mandatory) and were very easy. Essentially, the worksheet would require you to come up with an alteration of a study mentioned in previous lecture(s) and plot the hypothetical results. Several potential answers were given at the end of discussion and grading of the worksheets were based on effort and not correctness (after all, there were infinite correct answers).
15% Paper: A five page paper where compare a news article and the corresponding research paper on which the article was written and explain its relevance to the class and provide suggestions for a hypothetical follow-up study. This paper is decently challenging as it can be difficult to come up with a hypothetical follow-up study but if you run your idea by your TAs a few days before the assignment, you will be fine! Writing the rest of the paper is fairly easy.
25% Midterm exam and 35% Cumulative final exam: The exams were generally fair and focused on the main topics of the course. The exams were mostly multiple choice but there was a brief free response section (which was roughly 15-20% of the exam's value). To be honest, the TAs graded the free response questions fairly generously, so as long as you have a grasp of general ideas, you probably are fine. Free responses are graded blind to reduce bias.
//Material//
- I really hate cognitive psychology; I find it dull, boring, and completely uninteresting; but everyone will have different perspectives on the material. Despite this hatred, I still did well so if you're in the same boat, don't fret.
- Class is BruinCasted.
- The professor posts slides but they're generally very bare-bones so you have to take notes while listening.
//Overall// Kind/helpful professor and fair exams make-up for the short-fall of boring content. The "extra" components of the course like the discussion sections, paper, etc., while annoying and tedious, create a decent cushion for exam grades.
This class is super easy and guaranteed an A. She does kind of talk to us like we are children which I didn't really like. There is a lot of busywork, with every week having 2 lectures, either a quiz or an article analysis, and a lab. But they are very easy to get full points and the lowest one is dropped. The exams were pretty easy with little studying. They had multiple choice and 3 short answer questions (which were graded pretty easily). Overall, I would say write the definitions of everything she goes over, write the main takeaways from the labs and article analysis (she does test on those), and participate in your labs.