1st things 1st; TAKE THIS CLASS WITH TROTT, DO NOT DEBATE ANYONE ELSE; TROTT IS THE BEST OF THE BEST. This class has got to be one of the easiest, most fun classes I have taken at UCLA as a psychobiology major. It was the first one obviously, of the psych classes and sometimes it has a reputation for being hard? I have never consistently done so well in a class and it just takes a little bit of effort to do that. The exams were never meant to trick you and I think they are extremely fair to the things Trott emphasizes in class and the way the CourseKata textbook is structured. The class is structured to that you primarily learn from the textbook and these ideas are reinforced through lecture---which I'd really recommend going to. There are tons of opportunity for extra credit through both attending all class and lab sections which are literally just free points. Furthermore, there is extra credit for sitting the front of lecture and answering questions (not as terrifying as I first thought it would be) and completing extra chapters; super easy too! Trott does all he can to ensure students really get the most they can from this class!

I personally had only taken one like intro stats class during high school and I did well on exams and learning all the coding and didn't need to rely on any prior knowledge to do so. The intimidating part of the class for me was learning R ,but it was SO SO SO SO EASY once we began and this fear was immediately relieved by my goat Jeremy Trott. So don't be worried about that! Not totally sure of my grade right now but probably an A or even A+ ???

Literally take it with him at all costs