PSYCH 120A
Cognitive Psychology
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 10, 100A. Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey of cognitive psychology: how people acquire, represent, transform, and use verbal and nonverbal information. Perception, attention, imagery, memory, representation of knowledge, language, action, decision making, thinking. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2022 - Rissman needs to learn to narrow down topics to the essential material he would like his students to learn, but instead, he dumps so much information in his lectures in order to test you on it all. He takes every minute of the lecture to do this, down to the last second. In the last lecture, he wanted to introduce a final concept to us and took the last 4-5 minutes to say what was on the slides, and said he expects to know it for the final. That is not real teaching or lecturing, imo. The workload includes "ZAPS" which are low stake modules, weekly 10-question lecture quizzes, iClicker polls for participation, discussion attendance, a term paper, the midterm, and the final. He made SONA extra credit more challenging by assigning 0.5 credits/1 hour instead of the usual 1 credit/1 hour, with the excuse that it will help researchers. Still, if he was really supportive of grad student researchers, he could take other action items that other professors have taken in support of their current UAW strike. He claimed to be sympathetic to the challenging midterm seeing many of us got low scores, so he gave everyone 5 points. For MC he likes to give 3 choices added with A & B and B&C, so it can be confusing.
Fall 2022 - Rissman needs to learn to narrow down topics to the essential material he would like his students to learn, but instead, he dumps so much information in his lectures in order to test you on it all. He takes every minute of the lecture to do this, down to the last second. In the last lecture, he wanted to introduce a final concept to us and took the last 4-5 minutes to say what was on the slides, and said he expects to know it for the final. That is not real teaching or lecturing, imo. The workload includes "ZAPS" which are low stake modules, weekly 10-question lecture quizzes, iClicker polls for participation, discussion attendance, a term paper, the midterm, and the final. He made SONA extra credit more challenging by assigning 0.5 credits/1 hour instead of the usual 1 credit/1 hour, with the excuse that it will help researchers. Still, if he was really supportive of grad student researchers, he could take other action items that other professors have taken in support of their current UAW strike. He claimed to be sympathetic to the challenging midterm seeing many of us got low scores, so he gave everyone 5 points. For MC he likes to give 3 choices added with A & B and B&C, so it can be confusing.
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