I loved this class! It was super interesting and Professor Goff is a great professor and cares about you and your learning. I strongly recommend taking this class.

Goff is a wonderful professor and person. She is very friendly and really cares for her students. She gives live lectures and also records them. I always looked forward to attending her lectures and she explains the material very clearly and thoroughly.

Her exams are relatively easy as long as she may attention during class and do the homework (which are just short written reports).

I had a lot of fun learning from this class and I highly recommend taking this upper div at the beginning of your college career since many of the other psych classes build upon the material taught in this class!

Professor Goff is very knowledgeable and engaging. Lectures were organized well. She does talk insanely fast though, of which she is aware, which make it almost impossible to take notes during the live zoom. After week 2, I only watched the recordings just because she goes so fast, I needed to pause pretty often to catch up on my notes. Definitely take notes and record poll questions. The exam questions honestly are tricky and require studying. Written assignments were annoying but overall reasonable and forces you to stay on track. I didn't attend discussion at all after week 2, they were moved to a time I couldn't attend and just not necessary. Did 2/3 extra credits, I was unable to do SONA because there were no more studies left, so do that one early. No readings whatsoever, which was great. Occasionally we had supplemental videos. Lectures were shorter than the 1 hour 15 because we had videos in between and questions at the end. Overall, take this class.

This was the one class where I wish I was able to get to know the professor more because Goff was amazing... but I always only ended watching the lectures after they were recorded. Anyways, Professor Goff was a very engaging and articulate lecturer, and I would take another class with her. The workload isn’t intense but it does get repetitive and annoying to do, however they aren’t hard to score full points on. Her exams, I would definitely say they were tricky cause I did terrible on the midterm but the final was more chill since I actually invested more time to know and apply the material. Developmental psych is interesting and honestly if you put at least 3-5 before each exam and actually know everything from her lecturers, you can get an A.

Professor Goff is really really great. I never thought I'd have an interest in developmental psych but her class made me want to take even more. Her lectures were so interesting, she explains everything really well. Her only downside I think is she lectures a little quickly BUT everything is recorded and posted on CCLE (attendance to lecture is optional) so you can rewatch her videos and slow her down to take notes. There's no textbook or reading materials; as long as you understand the lecture contents really well you should be fine for the exam, but it's not an "Easy A" class, you need to put in work. There are weekly assignments that are fairly simple but that's about it, and she offers extra credit.
Attendance for discussion section was also optional as everything was recorded. Personally, I didn't find them useful so you can definitely do without.
I definitely recommend this class and I DEFINITELY recommend this professor.

Goff is a great professor and the material is super interesting. Her exams however, are no joke. In my opinion, her questions aim to trick you instead of actually testing on the material. I really enjoyed the class and the written assignments but the exams really affected my grade. No textbook required, no participation required, extra credit, weekly written assignments, 2 exams. Take her but make sure to study hard!!

Dr. Goff is awesome and is by far one of the best professors I've had at UCLA! Psych 130 was super interesting and honestly wasn't too hard. Your grade in the class depends on a midterm, a final, and 8 small writing assignments (about 500 words max). For the exams, she made it so that the exam you got the higher grade on weighed more and helped your grade! The exams were 50 questions each, open book, and you had 75 mins to complete them. The Final also isn't cumulative.

For the writing assignments, you had to write a short paragraph and honestly it took only like an hour max a week. The TAs also don't grade these too hard either (I recommend TA Ritika Rastogi!)

Prof. Goff posts slides before class and she gave 2 points of extra credit in the quarter. If you're looking to pick up a 4th class and are worried about the workload I highly recommend Psych 130; it really didn't even feel like another 4th class that I had to put THAT much effort in for an A+.

Though the material can sometimes be boring, I always felt engaged during class! This is one of the classes that I wish I could've experienced in person rather than taking it online. The material was incredibly interesting and very applicable to US and people around us, which makes it more interesting. I learned a lot and constantly find myself relating things about me and others to the material I learned here.
We had a written assignment every week pertaining to that week's material that everybody in the class enjoyed doing (it served as therapy for some!) that were worth 10 points each, there are no quizzes, but there are only 2 EXAMS (totaling up to about 70 points) that are open note, but just because they are open note does not mean it will be easy... trust me. Your grade is solely based on written assignments and 2 exams, so make sure to do well. There were two extra credit opportunities, one with my TA (taking a survey) and one offered for the whole class.
The exams were more difficult than I expected because they are *very* application-based. Though the slides help with background knowledge, you can really succeed in this class by applying what you learn in the slides to hypothetical situations you make up.

This class was amazing! I thought it was super easy and fun.
Professor Goff held lectures over Zoom and posted recordings later. I never went to live lectures, but she was a great lecturer and made everything really clear. I also never attended discussion or watched the recordings, so I don't think it's necessary to attend to succeed.
The grade was made up of two exams and weekly writing assignments. The writing assignments were based on lecture material and very easy, with each response being around 300 words. This will be graded by your TA, and mine was very lenient.
The exams were fairly easy as well. Some students complained about the first exam, but I thought it was very fair. The exams were open note, so everything was pretty straightforward. It was somewhat more application-based than pure memorization, but overall the exams were easy.
Professor Goff was super kind and understanding and I highly recommend taking this course with her!

Goff was an extremely passionate professor. She always made lectures interactive and interesting. I loved how she would talk about her sons and share cute videos. The weekly writing assignments were straightforward and helped to deepen understanding of the course material. The midterm and final require a decent amount of studying (even though they are open notes). As long as you take good notes and understand the material rather than memorize, you will perform well in this class. I would definitely take this class again.