PSYC 2150

Easy and interesting class. Took the class during covid/virtual, and even though the Prof held class asynchronously, you can tell she really cared about her students and was very organized when it came to giving info out well ahead of time for lecture, quizzes, grading, etc. Prof. Golino was also super good at listening to students when people emailed her about grading policy/when quiz answers were unclear/etc. and she frequently made class-wide grade adjustments based on these. Each chapter had a correlating open note quiz, and there was a midterm and final. She does have a thick Brazilian accent that can be hard to understand sometimes, but her lectures have captions on them and she uploads her slides, so you can get by w/o watching all the lectures.

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This class was pretty easy to get through online. We had one chapter quiz per week plus a mid-term and a final, all of which were open note. Most of the time the answers to test and quiz questions could be easily found by watching lectures, but occasionally I would need to read through the chapter. A lot of the information was review of things I had learned in my intro psych course, and the rest was pretty intuitive. I wouldn't say the topic was particularly interesting, but if you're trying to check the box for a psych major I would definitely recommend.

Take it with her!! The lectures are all online and while the discussion is on Friday, you just perform super easy experiments in class no there's no issue if you went out the night before. There's only 2 exams which are open note, so they're a little harder but nothing crazy. Grades come from the exams, discussions, and quizzes. The TAs seem super chill and the prof is so sweet.

This course consisted of 2 exams, a weekly discussion section with reports, and weekly quizzes and lectures. The discussion sections were very basic and the reports for them were very easy. You basically just do a couple of activities and answer some questions and get your attendance taken. You would watch the weekly lectures after the discussion section and the corresponding quiz would be due the next week. The weekly quizzes were not too difficult, but could sometimes be worded weird and trip you up. The two exams were slightly harder than the weekly quizzes, and often had questions that were worded weirdly and kind of confusing. The thing about the exams is there are only two of them, each worth 20% of your grade so the stakes are very high. Professor Golino also has a pretty thick Brazilian accent which can make her difficult to understand at times. Overall, definitely not an easy A but also not too difficult of a class.

Note, I took this in the summer
Workload was very manageable even for a summer course. There were just nearly daily readings and quizzes, all asynch. The exams were weighted quite heavily and the content was interesting. I felt like I learned a lot about cognition and cognitive functions.

I had Dr. Mariana Teles during the Spring 2024 semester and I thought the class was great! She posts about 2-4 lectures each week that you need to watch and take notes on in preparation for one in person lab every week along with a quiz before the lab. She has four exams throughout the semester and three of them have questions that are directly from the recorded lectures, then one of them is just from the in-person labs. The weekly quizzes are normally just 10-question open notes, also directly from the recorded lectures. The in-person labs are almost always group work and each table has a TA who will assist them and then sign off at the end of the lab. Dr. Teles is a very reasonable professor and her lectures are very straight forward and easy to follow and take notes on. If you take good lecture notes and study those notes before the exams along with attending every lab, it would be an easy A. #tCFS24

Prof Mariana is very nice, but it can be hard to determine what to study to feel prepared for the tests. As psychology exams are, some questions can feel misleading or a coin-toss up to interpretation. However, if bits of the exams felt unfair, prof will revisit certain questions with the TA's and give credit back to the class. Overall interesting class and good segue to upper-level counterparts.

Prof Teles does seem passionate about the topic, but she is not great at actually teaching it. The online lecture videos are very disorganized, not cohesive, and are like a dump of random facts that you're expected to memorize for the exams. I tried to watch the lectures at the beginning and take notes, but lots of what she says in them aren't even relevant to comprehension quizzes or tests, so I eventually gave up and just read textbook. Grade is based off weekly online comprehension quizzes, lab attendance/assignment, and online tests (taken during lab session). The tests are often really confusing and the questions are misleading; lots of "select all that apply" questions that literally everyone gets wrong. Average on tests was ~70-80% throughout semester, so if you're looking for an easy A, this is not the class for you. If you already have a good background in psych/cog, you'll probably do well, but my major is totally unrelated and I struggled a bit. I think it's definitely an easy B/B+ if you need it for a requirement, but there are definitely easier classes.

Professor Teles is a very kind and reasonable instructor. Her class is fully online, which made it really convenient—I was able to go through the lectures and complete quizzes on Thursdays, which gave me a lot more flexibility in my schedule and saved time.

The course content is interesting but does require some effort to organize and understand on your own, especially when taking notes. The weekly labs are completion-based, so they’re manageable and low-pressure. However, the exams are more challenging—some questions can be a bit tricky or misleading. That said, Professor Teles is very responsive and fair. I reached out to her about exam questions, and she made reasonable corrections after reviewing them.

The exam average typically falls around 70–80%, so it’s not an automatic A. But if you’re willing to put in some self-study, the course is very doable—and Professor Teles’s supportive approach makes the experience a good one overall. I’d definitely recommend her class to students who like flexible scheduling and are comfortable learning independently.