Wood gives the most boring lectures I have ever had in college. She doesn’t seem intelligible on the topic and gives the most absurd exams I have ever taken. She tells you not to memorize the studies but then asks the most random minute details about an outside topic that we barely went over in class. Not only that , she doesn’t let you review your exams unless you went into office hours as they reuse exams. I have never taken a psyc class before this and won’t ever take one again. Stay away from this class unless you absolutely need it or are a psyc major.

#tCFF23. This class was incredibly interesting and manageable except for the fact that I found the exams quite difficult. I never had taken a Psych class before so that probably made it more difficult on my end by Professor Wood is an excellent and very understanding professor. We had weekly textbook homework assignments and if you simply show up to class you can get up to 3% in extra credit.

Prof Wood is positive, gives great lectures, and is very kind towards students. Lectures do get very boring and the class is almost entirely memorization, but tests are fair and it's not hard to do well if you put a lot of time in. Homework is only interactive textbook chapters. Overall, just a solid lecture class that I def learned a lot from.

Personally, I found this class very challenging because it is mostly based on your exam grades. She gives insane extra credit which is a huge boost and she is a really helpful/good lecturer. If you need this as a requirement, I highly recommend you take it just be sure to study for the exams ahead of time.

Professor Wood is really great. The work is super manageable, and a lot of the topics are very interesting and straightforward. The studies that she brings up are really cool and applicable to real life. There are mandatory readings every week, but I forgot more than a couple and managed to scrape an A, anyway. You can only turn in the questions on the textbook an hour after the official due date, otherwise you get a zero. You have to do six hours of participation in research, but as long as you stay on top of it, it's totally manageable to do all of them online. The exams aren't too bad, and they do curve it a little, which is nice. I believe all the lectures get posted, but there's an extra credit based on an in-class assignment that she randomly chooses, so you might want to attend lectures. It's a pretty easy class overall, but very interesting.

I loved this course! This is a perfect course to take during one of your more difficult semesters. I would describe this as an easy A that is fun!

Instructor: She is such an engaging lecturer! She does a great job organizing her lectures, giving interesting examples, and works to engage students. She is excellent and I highly recommend taking this course with her.

Coursework:
- There is one mandatory chapter reading each week (graded), but the textbook is interesting. Otherwise, there is no other weekly work other than showing up to lecture. This makes it such a low maintenance course to still learn a lot from.
- Grade breakdown: reading assignments (30%), research pool (5%), Exam 1 (15%), Exam 2 (20%), Final Exam (30%), and extra credit from showing up to lecture and completing the poll everywhere questions
- Exam advice (I got a 94, 95, and 100): Know the vocabulary from the lecture AND the textbook, go through your lecture notes to understand the example studies, exams are all cumulative but there is a focus on the new material, and lastly talk through the material the day before and it will make it easy

Overall, take this course!

This course material is super enjoyable, and Professor Wood tries to make it as interesting as possible with real-world examples of a lot of the terms and concepts. The class style is very lecture heavy, so if that isn't your style, then you may not enjoy it as much. However, Professor Wood does do polls and asks you to talk to people around you and then share with the class occasionally, which breaks up the hour 15 minute classes. The reading isn't too bad but I would recommend taking decent notes for later studying. The tests are mostly straightforward but there are some multiple choice questions where all of the answers could be "right" but you have to choose the "most right" one. Other than that, would 100% recommend this class and professor.

This class had so much potential to be interesting, yet somehow it wasn't. I often found myself being put to sleep during the lecture. This being said, I did well in this course regardless of having to pay too much attention. It was kind of annoying and felt like a waste of time to have to do the mind map assignments before every exam, especially since we peer-graded them. The tests aren't too difficult though.

AMAZING PSYCH CLASS. Great for first years just starting out with psych. I had credit for AP Psych which helped so I would consider taking intro psych first but it is not always necessary. This class was great- reasonable amount of reading from the textbook and not too much material introduced in lecture. There are 3 cumulative exams that increase in weight towards your grade (great for first years still getting used to how college exams are written). You will succeed in this class if you take careful notes on the assigned chapters and everything on the lecture slides/ main points she makes. I highly recommend making flashcards at the end of every week and taking 20-30 min every weekend to review so by the time of the final you are super prepared. Prof Wood is amazing and always there to help. The weekly reading assignments are super easy and great to boost your grade. One assignment that this class requires is a summary sketch where students make a concept map before each exam and are then graded by their peers which can be annoying if they take off points but it doesn't affect your grade too much. Loved this class!

I took this class as a pre-req for Psychology major and I earned an A in this class. The grade is divided into these categories: 30% weekly homework grade which you can get full points as long as you do them, 5% psychology research grade (6 hours of research per semester if you haven't done them before), 3 summary sketch before each exam that worth 5% each, 10% for first exam, 15% for second exam, 30% for third/final exam. If the average of the final exam is higher than the average of 1st and 2nd, then the final exam would be worth 50% of the entire grade. Professor Wood is a very nice person and she truly tries to make sure that her students succeed in the class. She gives out ample extra credits and I ended up having a 97 overall grade despite that I only earned an 80% for my finals. All in all this class is very friendly without much heavy contents and you can definitely take it even if you are not trying to pursue a psychology major because contents you learn in this class applies to daily life.