PSYC 1010

I love intro PSYC with professor Mazurek. Although his lectures are literally straight from the book, he makes them very interesting and fun to follow. The only issue I have with him is that he never makes it through all the material he actually needs to get through in lecture and flat out tells us to study the book. It could be a lot worse though. I would recommend using this youtube channel to help you study: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYyE1HK1j71Y9ZpsOYfizDw
This guy's lectures match up exactly with the textbook and he explains it in such a concise, simple way to where everything makes sense. Use this video as you read your textbook.

The most enthusiastic professor I've had so far at UVA. His love for psychology is infectious and his dad jokes / colorful language are very endearing. He's relatively new to UVA (after having taught in Missouri for over a decade) so he doesn't have the feel of a cynical tenured professor at all. Very talkative and friendly, and really helpful during office hours too. The textbook is surprisingly interesting and thorough - I'm glad we used this one instead of the one the other 1010 professors use. My only complaint is that he takes TOO many questions at the start of every class, which delays the lesson by 15 minutes almost every time. You will need to read the book and take good notes / make flashcards to do well on the tests - they are fair, but not particularly easy (especially not the first test, which covers mostly biology). I'm so glad I waited until the spring to take this course with Mazurek. Wish I had also taken him for Social Psych. After this class I feel very prepared to go on and take Neural Basis, Abnormal, or any other psychology course here. If you have the chance to take a class with this man, do it! You won't regret it.

Do not take this class unless you have to. The tests are WAY too hard for an intro psych class. I took this class because I thought a psych class could be interesting but this class is going to bring my GPA down. Overall the tests are just too specific even for someone who studied heavily. I would not recommend this class especially If you are looking for a good grade.

I loved the Intro to Psych class with Professor Mazurek. At first, I thought it was going to be a boring class but as the year began to pick up, this easily became my favorite class to attend. You can really tell that Professor Mazurek loves to teach psychology and is very passionate about making sure all of his students do well. I had heard coming in to psychology that intro was the hardest class. However, Mazurek makes it very easy, and as long as you read the textbook you will do fine. The exams are straight from the readings and lectures. Additionally, he drops the lowest exam score and also gives a few extra credit points. It is very easy to do well in this class as long as you keep up with the work. I would definitely recommend.

Professor Mazurek lectures straight from the book and doesn't get to about 75% of it. He keeps people there through iClicker questions. He's seems like a fun guy but his class style isn't great. Exams are alright but as an off-grounds student, hauling myself to Gilmer twice a week to do Clicker questions was terrible.

Before the start of the semester, I was told that Intro to Psych was going to be a horrible class and to drop it when I could. However, Professor Mazurek made this class highly enjoyable and I learned a great deal. The only homework you have in this class is readings, and if you stay on top of it, the class is a breeze. He does lecture straight from the book which can be very sleep-worthy if you have read, but he knows what he is talking about and you can tell that he really enjoys teaching. He adds information during lectures that the textbook doesn't cover and does clicker questions which will help your grade. His tests aren't bad and more than fair. Go to lectures, do the readings, and study for the tests and you can easily pull off an A in this class. If you are going to take PSYC 1010, take it with Mazurek.

Professor Mazurek is the BEST! He is fun, encouraging, and always willing to help. He makes the class and the somewhat dry material engaging and fun to learn. PSYC 1010 is an absolute treat and definitely a class to take if you're looking for something that piques your interest in the subject. The class is easy enough as long as you do the readings and actually study, you should have no problem getting a decent grade. Tests are fair, grading is well done, and just an overall great experience. My only gripe is the participant pool, but that's no fault of Prof. Mazurek's. Please, please, take this class, and take it with Prof Mazurek, y'all won't regret it!!!

Professor Mazurek was great. From what I've heard, he's definitely the professor to take PSYC 1010 with. He's really sweet and helpful and has a good sense of humor. His lectures can be a little dull purely by virtue of the fact that he's just reiterating the textbook content, but you need to go to them because he does graded clicker questions that factor into your grade. Because his lectures repeat a lot of textbook material, you don't need to spend a TON of time doing textbook reading. HOWEVER, he almost never makes it through everything in a chapter during lecture, so you DO need to be aware of what he doesn't cover and make sure to read it before exams - the topics will most definitely show up! The tests are pretty reasonable. They are a mixture of multiple choice, fill in the blank, and two 150 word free response questions. After the first couple tests, it becomes fairly easy to predict what topics might show up as the free response questions.

Professor Mazurek is a bit odd, the class isn't particularly interesting or engaging which makes it hard to be excited about the content, plus he teaches very fast and does not go over all the content that is on the test. However, the material is in the textbook and the reading is not too bad if you keep up with it. The tests are okay, some questions are tricky but it's manageable. Overall, I wouldn't recommend taking the class for fun, only take it if you need to. It's not an easy A and its not the most enjoyable.

Keep in mind while reading this, that I finished with an A in this class, and that I am not spiteful because of a bad grade. Mazurek would show up to class between 5 and 10 minutes late almost every class and would not get lecture started for another 5 minutes. Lectures themselves were totally useless. Lectures cover no more than 20% of the material that you need to know for the tests. The only reason to go is because of extra credit iClicker questions and each test has 1 or 2 questions about something very specific from lecture that's not in the textbook. Tests make up all of your grade, but the lowest test score other than the final gets dropped. Tests themselves are structured very poorly. He asks about very specific things that have little to do with psychology, or asks questions like "Name the four results of this experiment that were on the lecture powerpoint". Free-response questions make up 30% of the test grades and are completely arbitrary. You will feel like you answered the question completely correctly but still end up getting points off, even if you answer matches the textbook definition. He will also often pull up minute, insignificant topics and make them FRQ's so if you missed 2 lines in the textbook, there goes 10% of your test grade. He will also change scientific terms into other phrases/terms and expect you to know it even though it is not the way you learned it. If you are shooting for an A in this class, I recommend taking it with Dodson. You could know 99% of the material in this class and still end up with a B.