Overall, I really enjoyed my experience in this class! The professor is very clear and is always super open to answering student questions -- I was never made to feel stupid for speaking up. What I also really liked about his class was that Wilkenheiser made it accessible to all students given COVID-19 by offering hybrid options to everything, and not penalizing students if they were unable to come in-person. He had Zoom options for both lecture and discussion, although I am not sure if this will be continued for future quarters.

He had 4 non-cumulative quizzes in place of midterms and finals. The quizzes were very doable if you understood and reviewed the lecture material, and comparable in difficulty to the practice questions he posted. All the questions were very fair and he even dropped questions that he thought where poorly worded or that the entire class did badly on. They were also all online and open note.

Discussion attendance was mandatory, but I found it helpful (shout out to my TA, Lindsey) since it reviewed the material from the previous week. You also turn in 5 reaction papers total for points, which are basically one-pagers that connect the content of the class to your personal experiences -- very doable, shouldn't take more than 2 hours at most if you're following along with lecture.

The last component of the grade was 1 problem set. Because we moved through material slowly than previous quarters, he ended up making the problem set based on a scientific article. Similar to everything else, it was graded very fairly and very manageable in terms of workload.

Again, I would highly recommend taking Psych 110 with Professor Wilkenheiser if you can. The material may not be the most engaging, but he is very fair, accommodating, clear, and concise in his lectures!

Andrew has to be one of the best column A professors that UCLA has. He's super fair with the exams and listened to students and was willing to give everyone points for exam questions that were confusing/more than one answer. The class is asynchronous which makes it easy to fall behind so try to stay on top of the lectures. The assignments seem tedious but they help sooo much. I failed one of the exams and still ended up with an A- because I got 100% on all the assignments (they really help!) At the end of the quarter, he gave a breakdown of everyones grade in the class and 76% of students got As! No one failed the course. Andrew wants everyone to succeed. It seems like he only teaches this course in the Spring or summer so I recommend waiting to take it with him.

Took him over the summer after taking this course with another professor and let me just say, what a breath of fresh air!! Highly recommend, he knows how to explain the material. Assignments and quizzes weren't too difficult, just review the PPT slides beforehand.

Professor Wikenheiser is AWESOME and he made a really dense and potentially dull topic very clear, concise, and engaging. The one word I would use to describe this class is: manageable (LOL not as a dis but in the best way possible). Most psych majors have to take this class and this topic can so easily be extremely complicated for no reason. There are just so many things we cover and the experiments are all very complex. It can get very tedious determining the US, CS, CR, UR and differentiating from conditioned approach response, modal action pattern, habituation, sensitization, sensory preconditioning, conditioned taste aversion, differential conditioning (see how they all start sounding the same after a while?). But Professor Wikenheiser made tests online and open note to really emphasis learning/understanding the material rather than simply memorizing it. The tests were not too difficult, but the were also not too easy to the point where they were dumb and disengaging. His slides were great and very detailed with lots of valuable information on them. I also thought that the photos he used were funny ahhahha he is a funny man.

I also attended his office hours a few times and he was super super helpful!!! Would def recommend :))

Basically, everything in this course is credit/no credit EXCEPT for the quizzes. The quizzes make up a huge chunk of your grade and it's incredibly easy to slip up on them. Make sure not to mess up on the quizzes, it's unforgiving to your grade! They are 22 questions each, multiple-choice, and non-cumulative.

The material in this class feels very redundant at times which made things tricky/confusing. Overall, there was a lot of interesting stuff but ultimately this was kind of a "pump and dump" class. I don't see myself retaining much of this information.

Super light course load & pretty cool class! I would recommend taking it with him. :)

i highly recommend him!!! def one of the easiest A+ 's I've gotten at this school. he's sweet, kind of reminds me of dr. tomiyama for those who have taken psych 150! i do have to say that his office hours didn't really help so no one goes, BUT an A+ is an A+ so i'll take it.

One of the best professors I've ever had at UCLA. His midterm averages were around the low 90s

The professor seems that he enjoys the material that he teaches. He knows what he is talking about and always answers questions that students ask.
I got a C because I underestimated how hard the material would be for the first exam and quizzes. It definitely is better to overprepare for the first exam that way you know how those are structured. Once you understand the material from the first exam, everything else will be a little easier.
Quizzes were different from TA to TA but it seems that they are all equal in how hard they are. Study for those since the final quiz score will be the same as a 4th exam.
If you study from the slides, you will be fine. Go to the professor's office hours and to the TA's office hours if you can, they will explain with more detail the information from the lecture and will be easier to grasp the material.
The professor is very supportive, he makes time to meet outside his office hours if you need to.
Don't buy the book, you can get an A from just going over the slides.
If you have time, read the book for better understanding, but you don't really need it.

Overall, you can get an easy A if you study enough and ask for clarification on the material. Study and you will be fine!

Probably one of the best professors you can take for PSYCH 110:

- Gives very clear lectures which his exams very directly test (no surprises if you study the slides well).
- Clearly very smart. Easily understands and answers students questions.
- Very kind and accommodating. Let me reschedule an exam for a medical school interview. Extremely kind in communication over email and in person.
- Genuinely a good guy. I asked about my score on an exam I did well on and he was smiling as he told me.
- Generous grading. Gave everyone 100% on a quiz that was missed due to class cancellation from fires. set >90% as an A (as opposed to >93%) following student suggestion.

If you have the chance to take PSYCH 110 with Wikenheiser, do it. From reading reviews of other professors for this course, Wikenheiser seems to the best.

I've heard horrible things about Psych 110, but Dr. Wikenheiser made this class feel very doable. His lecturing style is very clear and organized and he makes the complex experiments so much easier to understand. While the exams are only 25 MC questions, so you really can't mess up, they're pretty fair. The averages were in the 80's.
That being said, the class wasn't a total breeze. There was never really a chance to slack off because we had weekly quizzes, and while they were mostly not bad, you actually do have to study for them. The material is also incredibly dry: one of the few psych classes at this school I did not enjoy. But if you have to take it, take it with Dr. Wikenheiser!