Took a chance with this professor as he had no reviews because what could be worse than 120B?

I really tried to like this guy since he does care about the class and tries his best lecturing BUT man I really hated coming to this class. He sometimes confuses himself in lecture while I'm already struggling to pay attention. Really the only saving grace of this class was the mandatory section which would go into further depth on topics (get Maureen Gray as a TA or perish). His tests are unnecessarily difficult (and a fan on the cursed E answer choice). While the in-class / online quizzes and essay were easy assignments, the tests just make you feel like you wasted your time going over his 400+ review slide compilation. Perhaps reading the book could have helped but I wouldn't know because I can't read. You're probably better off taking this with someone else.

TRUST ME! DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS! Professor Mettler is a nice and knowledgeable person, but he is not good at teaching. The slides were terrible, around 400 slides for midterm and another 400 slides for final. It was better to read the textbook as the slides were really confusing.

I felt like I learned a good amount of Cognitive Psychology in this class and as felt like this was a good introductory class for my major. I already have taken a good amount of cog sci electives (like linguistics, psychology, computing, and philosophy), so if you go into it with some background knowledge, you'll be fine! There are readings in this class but I never really read them and have gotten A's on our group quizzes and midterms, so they're not tested on too much. Overall, I'd recommend this class for people interested in Cog Sci.

I took Professor Mettler Fall 2022 and at first I was very scared to take this class (because apparently this was one of the most difficult psych classes) but he made it so much fun. Although he uses big fancy words when he goes over the lectures (so dorky its cute), he was always willing to reiterate in a different way so that you understand -- his patience was great. He gave us study guides for the midterm and final (some questions were repeated from the study guides on the exam). Even though we had to do the readings weekly, he honestly gave up on us around week 4 because we all stopped doing the readings (also they were unnecessary for the exams). I think as a class we stressed him out so much over the final he ended up making it online (since there was the TA strike). During the last week of class he bought us all pizza and we listened to Megan Thee Stallion. I would take him again.

Dr. Mettler was pretty understanding that the material could be dense and emphasized that if you put in any semblance of effort you'd get an A. He was right. He wasn't really the best at explaining some concepts and at times he wasn't clear but the group quizzes were similar to the midterm. Overall he was okay but was very generous in his grading in my opinion. I didn't take notes because he went fast but he recorded audio lectures and it was helpful.

This class content wasn't too hard, but Professor Mettler was a bit all over the place. He wasn't very good at explaining concepts when students didn't understand, but he tried his best. He is kind and has a good attitude, but things got confusing in lecture. The class grades consists of two group quizzes that are take home, the midterm, and the final. It was all manageable if you are okay at teaching yourself things from the slides. Getting an A is doable but time consuming for studying.

He is a funny and caring professor. However, the materials and exams are quite hard. The ways he framed questions and used to explain materials are a bit difficult to understand. The averages were like 80 on both exams. But do not freak out. There are other points to help your grade. I scored like 85 on both exams (tho I thought I did ok on the final) and I ended up getting an A. He also curved within ranges.
There are like 2% extra credits and a paper (which is easy to do).
Textbook is required but I have never used it. I would say understanding materials on slides are fine.
Overall, I like this professor!

The Professor is nice and his lectures are usually pretty good. He tends to read off the slides a lot. The workload isn't bad at all because the readings are more recommended than required. The tests weren't too difficult either, especially since he made the final a take-home test. As long as you keep up with the material and study before the midterm and final, you should be fine. There are also group quizzes, so it would be helpful to form a group to do the quizzes with early on.

Professor was very caring. He understood the class was tough and provided extra credit points going to SONA studies. Also, cut us a break on quizzes that helped out our grades a lot. He pretty much gave us full points if we got 2 or more right. The only difficult thing about this class was understanding material on slides. I would read the textbook and take good notes and record his lectures. Go to his office hours if you do not understand. I messed up and did not do any of these. An A is definitely doable in his class if you study his slides with stars which he provides because there is a lot of slides. Discussion is mandatory and essay for this class is super easy. Overall, the professor cares about the students. There was a curve that could only help your grade say you have A- it could only go up to A or A+ if you are in the upper percentile of grades in the class.

Class was pretty fun and informative! Was not as difficult as it seemed as the idea was very intimidating.