PSYCH 15
Introductory Psychobiology
Description: Lecture, three hours. Designed for nonmajors. Survey of genetic, evolutionary, physiological, pharmacological, and experiential factors affecting behavior. Using comparative approach where appropriate, emphasis on relevance of biological mechanisms to understanding of humans and their interaction with their environment. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Course breakdown: 1) 8 Quizzes (1 dropped) 2) 1 Midterm 3) 1 Final. Each category is 70 points. Quizzes are 10 points each, so the total added with the lowest score dropped will be out of 70. The class is not easy, but it's definitely not hard. Since it's psychobio, it obviously requires a ton of memorization. He goes over extremely basic fundamentals though, so there aren't too many details you have to burden yourself with. Lectures basically just run through the text book. If you attend them, you will easily ace quizzes and develop a solid grasp of what you need to know for the midterm/final. Reading over the actual textbook also helps anchor it in your mind. You'll also learn this in class: DON'T READ EVERYTHING LAST MINUTE. Your brain requires time and sleeeeppp to consolidate information. For those who believe that memorizing information for the first time right before exams would help the information stay "fresh" in the mind, you won't leave the class smiling. If anything, just read over notes once per day, it helped me more than I can imagine. One negative is that he weights every category the same. Your final is not worth any more than your midterm, or your added up quizzes. So if you bomb one, making up for it with the other two may be a little harder. My midterm costed me my grade. In positive light, however, if you do well on quizzes and midterms, your final is basically the SAME THING as your midterm (if not, easier). People easily completed the final exam within the first 40 minutes to the hour of our 3 hour assigned final time. Quizzes are the easiest, then final, then midterm. Raw grade: A-. Official Grade: A-. So, don't depend on the curve.
Course breakdown: 1) 8 Quizzes (1 dropped) 2) 1 Midterm 3) 1 Final. Each category is 70 points. Quizzes are 10 points each, so the total added with the lowest score dropped will be out of 70. The class is not easy, but it's definitely not hard. Since it's psychobio, it obviously requires a ton of memorization. He goes over extremely basic fundamentals though, so there aren't too many details you have to burden yourself with. Lectures basically just run through the text book. If you attend them, you will easily ace quizzes and develop a solid grasp of what you need to know for the midterm/final. Reading over the actual textbook also helps anchor it in your mind. You'll also learn this in class: DON'T READ EVERYTHING LAST MINUTE. Your brain requires time and sleeeeppp to consolidate information. For those who believe that memorizing information for the first time right before exams would help the information stay "fresh" in the mind, you won't leave the class smiling. If anything, just read over notes once per day, it helped me more than I can imagine. One negative is that he weights every category the same. Your final is not worth any more than your midterm, or your added up quizzes. So if you bomb one, making up for it with the other two may be a little harder. My midterm costed me my grade. In positive light, however, if you do well on quizzes and midterms, your final is basically the SAME THING as your midterm (if not, easier). People easily completed the final exam within the first 40 minutes to the hour of our 3 hour assigned final time. Quizzes are the easiest, then final, then midterm. Raw grade: A-. Official Grade: A-. So, don't depend on the curve.
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FAN FREAKING TASTIC PROFESSOR!!! I took LS2 with Schein and he is seriously one of the most concerned professors at UCLA. I think that's why he makes his tests super easy. He truly wants you to learn the concepts and trust me by the end of the course you could practically be a doctor by how much you learn. Schein is so great and if you get the chance to take a class with I'm definitely don't pass up the opportunity...not just because the exams are non cumulative multiple choice which are super easy but because he's seriously such a good professor!
FAN FREAKING TASTIC PROFESSOR!!! I took LS2 with Schein and he is seriously one of the most concerned professors at UCLA. I think that's why he makes his tests super easy. He truly wants you to learn the concepts and trust me by the end of the course you could practically be a doctor by how much you learn. Schein is so great and if you get the chance to take a class with I'm definitely don't pass up the opportunity...not just because the exams are non cumulative multiple choice which are super easy but because he's seriously such a good professor!
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Fall 2020 - I could teach this class, I knew and completely understood all of the key concepts. I took extremely thorough notes (over 60 pages, single-spaced, typed), watched the lectures multiple times and read/took notes from the textbook. I am by no means a bad test taker either; I am a very good test taker. That being said, I did not do well in this class. I could not dedicate any more hours to studying to this class and even if I could there is nothing more to study. The tests are insanely hard, someone even said the questions asked were questions that maybe PhD students would be expected to know and answer. Also keep in mind that this class is a lower division, intro class, and designed for non-majors. The professor also does not hold office hours. The syllabus says he does by appointment, but that is just a straight up lie. The only way to contact this professor is by posting on the class discussion board or emailing him. However, more times than not he does not even respond to email, he just blatantly ignores them. I was so excited for this class when I signed up and I ended the quarter completely uninterested making me never want to take another psych class and under no circumstances would I ever take this professor again.
Fall 2020 - I could teach this class, I knew and completely understood all of the key concepts. I took extremely thorough notes (over 60 pages, single-spaced, typed), watched the lectures multiple times and read/took notes from the textbook. I am by no means a bad test taker either; I am a very good test taker. That being said, I did not do well in this class. I could not dedicate any more hours to studying to this class and even if I could there is nothing more to study. The tests are insanely hard, someone even said the questions asked were questions that maybe PhD students would be expected to know and answer. Also keep in mind that this class is a lower division, intro class, and designed for non-majors. The professor also does not hold office hours. The syllabus says he does by appointment, but that is just a straight up lie. The only way to contact this professor is by posting on the class discussion board or emailing him. However, more times than not he does not even respond to email, he just blatantly ignores them. I was so excited for this class when I signed up and I ended the quarter completely uninterested making me never want to take another psych class and under no circumstances would I ever take this professor again.
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