The class is easy, but man does this course involve a lot of writing. I thought this class would be useful to teach some nice memory tips, but a lot of the more useful ones are widely disseminated. The course quizzes and discussion posts every week. The quizzes require you to write about 3 paragraphs and the discussion post require you to write about a limited concept that you literally need to squeeze dry to get to the word count. The midterm and final aren't too bad, but they're multiple choice and this course gives you nothing to help study so you have to prepare your own material. The assignments are terrible and require you to do pages of writing with the most **** of grading where they take off points for indentation. All-in-all a lot of work for no pay-off.

Frequent assignments that do absolutely nothing to help with practicing course contents.

Professor is not involved in the course and is a bit unresponsive.

Don't take it if it's not required. You'd get more out of just watching a Youtube video of memory.

Had 4 exams, non cumulative, lowest dropped. no graded quizzes. 5/235 points based on attendance. 2 bonus points. one written assignment ( 2 page analysis of article) and two misc assignments (a simple reflection and photo of a diy illusion). exams identical to quiz content. was very similar to in lecture content, used the book very little. prof got rid of some stuff we wouldve normally learned, so i assume it would be harder if not.

psych 101. super basic overview, lots of different stuff. very few specifics, lots of application and exampls.

very good talker, doesnt know her stuff much outside of lecture content (any question not answered in the book was given a "hm, thats a good one. im not sure." very communicative and easy to ask questions. hosted reviews outside of class time based on our questions. TAs took a while to grade (2+ weeks in a 6 week course for every assignment, so didn't know my grade till the very end).

you dont need smokin notes. if youre a freshman, its a lot of content, but if you actually take it seriously its easy.