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This class was very tough. Make sure you learn the material very quickly as the class is quite fast paced and the concepts build on each other. Honestly, the textbook saved my life in this class.
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Selling the textbook Comprehending Behavioral Statistics for $60. Brand new.

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I am selling the book if any one is interested! It cost $130 but I'll sell for $60. Contact me at *************

I posted this with the review below, but you might not see it if you don't expand the review, so I'm posting again.

Selling the textbook of Psych 100A.

Jaffe has changed his syllabus and he now requires a new textbook "Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (2nd Edition)"

This book is the loose-leaf version. No marks or notes. In very good condition, just like a brand new one.

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First of all the Psych dept should be ashamed of themselves for making us all go through the Bullshit of memorizing formulas and doing everything by hand, given that when you take 100B you will realize 100a is a total waste of time. We should be able to get the formulas given to us and just learn when to use what formula and what steps to take.
(sure if the world ends and all computers are destroyed we might need the knowledge of 100A to continue to conduct our research, and I guess since the book is online as well, that also justifies the memorization of formulas, since I don't have a physical textbook to refer back to. However I already forgot the formulas so I'd be screwed either way.)

As for the professor. He was ok, he just reads off of the power points he doesn't really explain anything. He gets to the point eventually which is the steps you need to take but he spends SO much time on the basic BS and then when he gets to the actual meet he speeds through it. Which is usually the case when prof's don't really know the material. I had to teach myself everything but from what I heard he was much better than Moran which seems to be the most horrible individual on the planet. Jaffe was nice though and if you ask something he was capable of explaining it I just don't like to be taught math with Powerpoint since it it difficult to follow along. So.. It is probably best to read the chapter several times and try to summarize the steps before you come to lecture then you can just use the lecture as a review/confirmation. I wish Jaffe would have structured it so that He would write down the steps on the board and say then you use this formula etc etc, and then go through examples for each type of topic, Instead of all this background info about scruffy dogs etc....

The tests are EXTREMELY similar to practice tests and homework problems, Most of them even identical. This is why it is crucial to know all those problems since most of the time identical problems are on the exam. (which defeats the whole purpose if you think about it since then you just memorize that and don't really learn anything anyway. Like awesome job UCLA way to go on that one really...)

However in the most retarded textbook I ever had to read, only available online which caused me to want to destroy my laptop on numerous occasions, there is ONE and a half good thing that you need. They have like a step by step solution thing for each type of problem ( which he usually copies and paste into ppt) what I did was I wrote down what type of solution we use for each type of problem, then the steps and the formulas for each steps, and memorized all of that. I then practiced to write all this out over and over. And as soon as I got my test I spent the first 5-10 minutes writing all those things down on one sheet of paper, so for example 1-sample Z test, steps solution Indep t test, dependent etc. That is what helped me the most since then I basically had a manual to use when I began looking at the exam questions and this prevented me from confusing what formula to use and what steps to take which MANY people did who just tried to keep everything in their heads. The book also has questions and summaries at each end of chapter those are good to know in addition to HW and practice test.

It is worth noting that something Jaffe did really pissed me off and caused me to get a B+ instead of an A, He said there would only be ONE question on Power on midterm 2, I was in a crunch and didn't have time to teach myself power as well so I skipped it since I knew everything else perfect, but the test ended up having 4 questions on power so I missed all of those resulting in me dropping a grade.
I heard that Moran had done something similar so to be safe make sure you really triple check exactly what is on each exam. But as long as you know the steps and formulas for each type of problem, and have done the homework and practice exams you will be fine.
It is also worth noting I did not either get a 100% on all HW since I didn't have a friend that had saved their old HW and thus be able to cheat that way and not really doing the HW. Majority of people had this so I guess that is helpful. But ah well.
There is a LOT of material in this class and the class moves quickly with a test every other week, the final was long and brutal and because we had one week to learn the last new stuff I confused myself on that material on the final, I should have in hindsight focused more on memorizing the practice final questions instead of understanding the material cause that was what most people did and they finished the final an hour before me, since I didn't remember all the answers so I actually had to do the calculations, I guess that is what you get for trying to be a good student and ACTUALLY learn and understand vs. being connected and having friends with all the homework answers and old exams to memorize.

Tip to succeed in 100A: The textbook and personal trainer (supplemental online stuff) are your best friend. USE THEM BOTH.

Jaffe is down to earth and makes the class enjoyable. He seems very busy with his rehab clinic so it felt like lectures would be cut short. He spends a lot of time going over more basic concepts and the TEXTBOOK and PERSONAL TRAINER is where you will really get how to succeed on the test. When I took it, the other professor, Reise made the tests and they were based on the book publisher (Hurlburt). So I'd say definitely read your chapters well. For me, going to lecture was important because even though I was confused much of the time -- that confusion became the basis for me to get a general idea of what we're learning. Then I'd look into the book to understand further. Multiple choice tests, with few free response questions. Tests are more conceptual than computational, so know your concepts. If the book goes beyond the basic content to explore an abstract view of the content, pay attention. Those little things became test questions.

Use your book and personal trainer and you'll be fine! Jaffe was also very helpful in office hours, he'd also share things with us in office hours about the test that he wouldn't say in front of the class. Wish I went more, good luck!

So all of the evaluations below are things that did NOT happen this quarter. We got a new text book, which meant all new exams. Plus, no more homework! Quizzes instead!

The quizzes were written by the TAs and fairly complicated. The exams are a bunch of true/false questions and very few math problems.

Jaffe is a really wonderful professor. He wants you to succeed and wants to be there for you, however he rarely has office hours and it can be hard to meet with him. If you treat this like any other psychology course, with an emphasis on learning more conceptually, you'll be just fine. But you'll have to curb how you learned statistics before, his class is less about math and more about understanding how and why something does what it does.

Why Jaffe has good reviews is beyond me. He is by far the worst professor I have had at UCLA. He is incredibly lazy and never cared about his class. He would always ramble on about his addiction clinic, but didn't talk enough about the things that were important - like the actual material! Jaffe didn't even write his own damn test which made it incredibly difficult to study. If you have the option between Jaffe and Reise, take Riese. They both suck, but, at least, Riese writes the test so he will let you know what will be on them.

Everyone in the class was always miffed at Jaffe for one reason or another. There was the time the quiz questions took way too long to do and had nothing to do with stats. There was the time an essay question on the test (which Reese wrote, of course) was an abbreviation that Jaffe hadn't mentioned, and he refused to throw it out (he EVENTUALLY did). Then for the next test, Jaffe said he would write the essay portion himself, and it turned out to be waaaay harder than what Reese's class had. And then there was the one EC point he offered if half the class turned in reviews for him and both the TAs, that was fun...
Overall it was pretty disappointing. I always felt like Reese's class didn't have to jump through the hoops we had to. If you want to be amused by his stories and cute kids and learn a little bit about his work, go for it. If you want to learn stats, I wouldn't take it with Jaffe if I had a better choice.