Amazing professor, very prompt at responding to emails, she posts great slides but you must take detailed notes and make sure you understand the material on a canceptual level. She asks conceptual type questions on the exams. This course went fast in the summer but doable while taking another course at the same time. She explains material well and helps you to understand. 1 midterm, 1 final, and weekly written assignments, allows 2 points extra credit. EVERY point in this class counts!!

I LOVE Prof. Goff! I took this class during COVID-19 so it was entirely online. I watched all the lectures asynchronously on Zoom due to a conflict, but I still loved this class! The content is interesting and Prof. Goff is an amazing teacher who truly cares about her students. The exams were a bit difficult, but the exam was open note so it was fine. I think I got A's on both of them. She also gives the final during the last class period in Week 10 which is really nice because you get to finish one of your classes early! Other than the exams, we had a mandatory section once a week and weekly written assignments to complete but they were always really easy and straightforward. This class definitely sparked my love for developmental psych and I've taken 3 other dev psych classes since then! Professor Goff is amazing!!

Professor Goff is a great professor who cares about her students and ensures that students have the experience possible. The material is interesting and the content is not too difficult however I do believe that in order to get an A you really do have to study the material in detail. Furthermore, I feel like people need to learn to separate their feelings for a professor from the difficulty of a class as I found the exams to be somewhat challenging.

Overall: 4
Easiness: 4
Workload: 5
Clarity: 4
Helpfulness: 5

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+.