PSYC 2600

This class is a good one for sure. Prof Wood is super nice and records her classes so if I can't make it to class I can watch it later to catch up. The homework is easy freebies and summary sketches and reviews are just small projects for each exam which are generally just study tools. The exams however are quite the beating with fill in the blanks and multiple choice leaving you stupidly confused but overall the grading covers for a lot of your mediocre performances.

Summary: A really chill professor who is fun to listen to and an easy and interesting intro class. Take this class if you need a social science credit.

Adrienne Wood is one of the best teachers I've had so far in college(3rd year). She really puts a lot of effort into making her slides and lectures interesting, and she intentionally makes the class pretty easy which you love to see in an intro class, even telling us to grade each other more easily on the summary sketches. The class itself was fairly interesting, although much of it is pretty intuitive. The three exams were all fairly easy, and the weekly reading quizzes are all really easy(provided you do the reading). Each reading was about an hour long, so it didn't take a ton of effort in this class to succeed.

Very interesting psych class that has very minimal work! You have weekly reading assignments that you can take as many times as you would like until you get 100. There are 3 exams, multiple choice with a couple of fill in the blank. You also have to make a summary sketch or some sort of visual representation of the content from the units before each exam and then peer review those. Professor Wood is a good professor, and you can tell she really cares about her students and wants you to do well. If you pay attention in class and read (or just study before the exams) you should do fairly well! Would recommend, even for non psych majors!

Overall not happy with this course. The instructor seems cool but that's about where it ends. Not very engaging and material is quite boring. Tests are tricky and difficult and take days to weeks to grade when they are multiple choice. You only have the specific class period to take the test, which is unheard of when taking online. Reading isn't super hard but the book is really slow on most computers (tried a bunch, always freezes). The powerpoints are confusing and not really a study tool at all. Lecture and book do not overlap and you have to memorize both. Have to remember weird details and fake research designs and the final exam was extremely difficult and confusing. You have to complete mini projects (summary sketches) where they are graded by peers in an online forum, pretty lazy, inefficient, and unfair grading.

BESTTTTT.
The class was amazing. Personally, it was very interesting to me. Yes, there are readings but super doable and easy-reads. There are also some summary sketches and weekly reading's quizzes. The tests were online but I think that was not the initial plan. Anyways, a lot of memorizing for tests but very easy material.
10/10 would recommend this professor!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!