This class requires a lot of paying attention in class and rewatching the lectures online. Its not a hard class you just have to put in the work studying, I thought Professor Wassum was a very helpful professor in terms of clarity, she repeats a lot of things and explains them in different ways until her point comes across. Exams are very lecture based.

I don’t think I would recommend this class to people who don’t have to take it ! The material is dry and Wassum’s lectures consisted of explaining experiments after experiments after experiments. The exams were difficult because required detailed regurgitation of specific experiments that were briefly mentioned in class (half multiple choice, half free response).

VERY HARD EXAMS. Felt they were a bit unfair. Not straightforward and off lectures. Outside knowledge and other sources are needed to even have a chance at passing the exams.

Took this class and felt that it was extremely difficult! The exams are completely unpredictable, she doesn't give you any hints on what could be on the exam, you have no clue what to study for, and her office hours are never helpful. Class is taught very broadly but very specific details that aren't even mentioned in lecture and that I actually could not find in the book were tested on the exam. You go into the class thinking it's easy because lecture is very shallow so you think it's easy until you get to the exams and as soon as you look at it, you scream FML. She talks too fast at times as well and goes off topic on many slides which make it harder for you to connect the material which she is lecturing on to the material on the slide. Very hard class where I put a ton of hours of work and did not get the results that I feel I deserved because this class is very unfairly difficult.

Professor Wassum is clearly knowledgeable on the topic of learning. I just wish this class was easier to understand. For a professor who studies learning you would think she'd be an outstanding teacher. I got straight 100% on all 10 weekly summaries, which should supposedly show my understanding of the class, but her tests are just dreadful. I studied really hard and was able to make improvements, but if I knew this class would be the way it was, I wouldn't have taken it. I only recommend this class for people who really enjoy Pavlovian and Instrumental conditioning and have a good understanding of these topics and experiments. If you don't, then good luck, because this class is ROUGH.

Alright the reviews here are super dramatic lmao. The exam averages for winter 2022 were in the high B to low A range… people did well lol. Relax

Professor Wassum is an amazing professor! Please don't get intimated by the reviews that are on here; a lot of people go into this class expecting it would be like any other Psych elective, but it's supposed to be hard, and you are supposed to be listening and studying to do well in this class. Yes, her lectures are pretty fast paced, but going home and reviewing recorded lectures help a ton!! She is honestly really helpful during office hours as well and pretty receptive to her students. Her examples in class are on point and makes content of the class digestable. Loved it!

I was super worried going into this class because of the reviews, but it turned out to be one of the easiest classes I've taken. Weekly summaries take 10 minutes to write. And the clarity of Wassum's lectures are 9/10 I'd say. The tests were quite straightforward as well. Maybe it was easier for me because the tests were online exams? I highly recommend this class from my experience. Again the disclaimer being the online format.

Hands down, the most boring class I've ever taken in my life bro. Content wasn't interesting and I would have never taken this class if it wasn't required for me. I couldn't stand the in person lecture. Prof Wassum talked too quickly and the slides had nothing of value to me... So unfortunately I had to rewatch lecture at home to understand anything (topics got confusing and BORING as the quarter went). I got headaches every time I had to watch lecture ngl.

Assignments/exams were pretty straightforward: Weekly homework was just a summary of the past week's lectures. Two midterms and final all the same format, 75 minutes, ~30 questions, one-sided cheat sheet. I didn't study a lot (I really just did the homework summaries and that was it). Some practice questions were given. Discussions not mandatory.

So glad it's over. Good luck y'all.

Would not recommend this class. Her lectures are pretty disengaging and repetitive. Her style of lecturing is to teach a portion of material for about 15 minutes or so, and then review that material that she just taught, then repeat this for the duration of the class period. While this sounds like it'd be helpful, it just felt like an inefficient use of time and caused me to not focus as well during the actual teaching/to overly rely on the review slides. Additionally, the examples and studies she uses to teach concepts in class are extremely similar, so it is pretty easy to confuse the various studies with each other (for example, when describing conditioning she will often use a lever and tone instead of changing it up). She does allow a one-sided cheat sheet for each exam (2 midterms and a final) which is helpful. I found midterm 1 to be much more difficult than midterm 2 and the final. I would recommend knowing each specific study she mentions in lecture and going over the practice questions, because some of the exact questions are on the exams.