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Jeremy Trott
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Spring 2023 - Professor Trott is a great lecturer. He works hard to make sure his lectures have a narrative-like flow which is really helpful considering we cover so many different experiments. He is very well-spoken and clearly explains each experiment/paradigm without overcomplicating them. All the lectures are also recorded. The class was made up of 80% exams. There were 4 exams throughout the quarter, each being 5 question short answer and noncumulative. Each exam was worth 20% of your grade. The other 20% came from weekly quizzes on Bruin Learn which were multiple choice, had unlimited attempts, and kept your highest score. Your two lowest quiz grades were dropped. He also offered extra credit where your lowest test score would increase by 5% (1% of total class grade) if you attended one of the UCLA neuroscience presentations and wrote a half page summary about it (which he posted the schedule & links to access the talks). This class is super interesting and a great blend of the psychology of learning and neurobiology. You also get to learn a bit of the history of psychology! I strongly recommend taking this class, especially with Professor Trott. It takes work, especially with how frequently you're taking exams, but it is very worth it and doable! Just a heads up, the first unit draws heavily from Psych 110 content (Pavlovian vs Instrumental Learning, S-R vs S-S* associations, etc.) so it may be useful to take this class soon after you take 110, but you can definitely be successful in this class without a strong 110 background.
Spring 2023 - Professor Trott is a great lecturer. He works hard to make sure his lectures have a narrative-like flow which is really helpful considering we cover so many different experiments. He is very well-spoken and clearly explains each experiment/paradigm without overcomplicating them. All the lectures are also recorded. The class was made up of 80% exams. There were 4 exams throughout the quarter, each being 5 question short answer and noncumulative. Each exam was worth 20% of your grade. The other 20% came from weekly quizzes on Bruin Learn which were multiple choice, had unlimited attempts, and kept your highest score. Your two lowest quiz grades were dropped. He also offered extra credit where your lowest test score would increase by 5% (1% of total class grade) if you attended one of the UCLA neuroscience presentations and wrote a half page summary about it (which he posted the schedule & links to access the talks). This class is super interesting and a great blend of the psychology of learning and neurobiology. You also get to learn a bit of the history of psychology! I strongly recommend taking this class, especially with Professor Trott. It takes work, especially with how frequently you're taking exams, but it is very worth it and doable! Just a heads up, the first unit draws heavily from Psych 110 content (Pavlovian vs Instrumental Learning, S-R vs S-S* associations, etc.) so it may be useful to take this class soon after you take 110, but you can definitely be successful in this class without a strong 110 background.
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Summer 2025 - Professor Trott is a fantastic professor and I'd highly recommend taking this class with him. He's a really engaging lecturer and he's super helpful outside of the class, he clearly cares a lot about the success of his students. I took this over A-session 2025, so we had an especially fast-paced class since everything was squeezed into 6 weeks. At times it felt like a lot of information very fast, but Professor Trott made things very manageable. The only homework was weekly quizzes that weren't too difficult, and the exams were very fair in terms of difficulty. They were a mix of multiple choice and short answer, and he allowed us to have a 1 page (front and back) sheet with notes for each exam. There was also extra credit offered on each exam, with the difficulty of the question determined by overall class attendance. Overall, I learned a lot in this class and I couldn't recommend Professor Trott enough to anyone who needs to take it.
Summer 2025 - Professor Trott is a fantastic professor and I'd highly recommend taking this class with him. He's a really engaging lecturer and he's super helpful outside of the class, he clearly cares a lot about the success of his students. I took this over A-session 2025, so we had an especially fast-paced class since everything was squeezed into 6 weeks. At times it felt like a lot of information very fast, but Professor Trott made things very manageable. The only homework was weekly quizzes that weren't too difficult, and the exams were very fair in terms of difficulty. They were a mix of multiple choice and short answer, and he allowed us to have a 1 page (front and back) sheet with notes for each exam. There was also extra credit offered on each exam, with the difficulty of the question determined by overall class attendance. Overall, I learned a lot in this class and I couldn't recommend Professor Trott enough to anyone who needs to take it.
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Winter 2024 - Trott is honestly my favorite professor at UCLA. He is very knowledgeable on the material and very concerned with student understanding. You can tell he is really passionate about the material he teaches and that passion is infectious. His lectures were always engaging and he was always happy to answer questions, both in lecture and office hours. The readings could be a little long but they were worth it in my opinion.
Winter 2024 - Trott is honestly my favorite professor at UCLA. He is very knowledgeable on the material and very concerned with student understanding. You can tell he is really passionate about the material he teaches and that passion is infectious. His lectures were always engaging and he was always happy to answer questions, both in lecture and office hours. The readings could be a little long but they were worth it in my opinion.
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