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!

This professor talked about EVERYTHING abstractly. All you learn about is CS, US, CR, etc and all he talks about is cs this and cs that, he doesn't bring real life meaning to what he talks about so it's very difficult to grasp what he says as he says it because you're busy going back to what does Conditioned stimulus mean, and what does that one mean before you click the info together. On top of that everything we are leaning is super boring, nothing exciting or extraordinary. Super basic, it felt like a math class, but never referring to real things, again all abstract.

Professor Wikenheiser is literally the only professor I would take 110 with. I tried to take 110 with Fanselow in the fall and I almost fell asleep immediately after watching his lecture videos. Wikenheiser is extremely clear about the material and has a fun personality that makes the class more enjoyable. The concepts are a little abstract, but I think that is the case for any professor teaching this class. Professor Wikenheiser gives lots of examples for every single topic in the course (sometimes making the lecture recordings longer in the process) just to give as many different examples of a topic to ensure that students understand what is going on. No extra credit, 4 homework assignments that were fair if you were up to date on lecture (10 points each, 40 total) and 3 Exams (30 points each, 90 total). The exams were open note and as long as you understood the lecture videos there were NO CURVEBALL QUESTIONS. Some professors test your ability to memorize a slide or even worse, interpret a test question instead of testing understanding. Wikenheiser was amazing and if you knew the material, the exams were a reflection of the lectures. I waited all year to take 110 in my last quarter so it could be with Wikenheiser and it was definitely worth it, one of the best column B professors for Psych.

Professor Wikenheiser was extremely understanding during difficult times on campus. He was also very clear when teaching the lecture material. I went into the class dreading it because the topic wasn't something I was particularly interested in. I can tell that the lecture material can be super hard to teach conceptually (especially Rescorla Wagner), but he made it so digestible and easy to understand. It was actually very impressive that we was able to do calculations in his head, let alone explain how the formulas you learn work since it could get very complicated. He's a very engaging lecturer and is an animal lover! Would definitely recommend going to in-person lectures, even though they are optional. He is very intelligent, friendly, and easy-going when it comes to assignments.

The 3 exams were online and pretty easy with a bunch of time allocated to do them (75 mins). He gave us a bunch of time to do the problem sets, which didn't take long to do and was pretty straightforward. Overall, if you're a psych major and need to complete Column A requirements, I would 100% recommend taking Psych 110 with Professor Wikenheiser. As someone who's more interested in social psych, Psych 110 and animal research was super fascinating to me! Professor Wikenheiser made it much better in my opinion.

I took this class online during Spring 2021, and Prof. Wikenheiser was truly a breath of fresh air after a whole year of online learning. He was super great at explaining difficult (and somewhat boring, at least to me) material and making his lectures engaging despite them being recorded. His exams were multiple choice and T/F exams on CCLE and I thought they were really fair- if you studied, you should do well! His exam review sessions before the exams were also really helpful- pay attention to what he says to focus on/review because he's dropping a lot of hints about what the test questions will be on. He was also really understanding and reasonable with test questions that were confusing in the wording and/or had low performance- he dropped a few questions that we did badly on because he said it must mean that he didn't cover it well enough in class (I've never had any other professors do this before and was genuinely moved T___T). Overall, I thought he was a great professor and would definitely recommend taking the class with him if you have to take this class!

Professor Wikenheiser was a very clear lecturer and made the material easy to understand. I just attended all of class asynchronously because there is a live option, zoom option, and Bruincasted option (attendance is not taken). Attending discussion section was optional, we just reviewed the answers to the weekly section BruinLearn quizzes that are just graded on completion, then the second half of discussion is office hours with the TA. The tests are fair, online and open note, but you definitely should study beforehand. Half the students got A+'s on the first two tests according to the grade distributions the professor shared with us. The TAs were very proactive, answering questions on Campuswire and providing us with review session recordings. No extra credit, but all the assignments were fairly easy.

The workload in this class is extremely light. The lectures are not mandatory (they are recorded). The discussions are also not mandatory (they are essentially just an office hours for the TAs). There were several assignments throughout the quarter, but they are all pretty easy. The reaction assignments are very easy points. The problem set was the hardest assignment for me, but if you go to TA office hours you can do good on it because the TAs are very helpful. The conditioning proposal is very easy as well. It is a half page paper, but it's a fun assignment. The exams are definitely the hardest part of this course. If you get 100% on every single aspect of the course (besides the 3 exams), you can miss a total of 11 questions on all 3 exams in order to get an A in the class. I didn't do well on the 1st exam, so I could only miss a few questions on the 2nd and 3rd exam in order to get an A, but I managed to do it. The material in this class was not my favorite, so it made the whole course less enjoyable for me, but Professor Wikenheiser is an excellent professor.