FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS! This has been the worst class I have ever taken and is extremely difficult even if you study. Lecture slides are not helpful, she talks extremely fast, and you will have to watch lectures over and over again just to make sure you got the information correct. The exams were pretty hard and are worded in a way that is confusing and overwhelming. The professor definitely knows her stuff but it seems like there is little care in making sure her students understand the material as well. Please, reader, save yourself from this anxiety and pain staking workload.

I loved taking class from Professor Wassum. It's very inspiring to see a very knowledgable and successful woman in psych research too – you can tell she loves what she does. I think I saw a review about her being condescending when you ask questions but I never got that vibe from her when she answered my questions or anyone elses. She is very engaging and gives a lot of individual guidance for class assignments and the final essay. The workload is not bad at all and if you show up and pay attention the material is interesting and not too difficult to grasp.
Would definitely take from her again!

Professor Wassum does talk pretty fast and she uses jargon that isn't accessible to everyone. Some of her test questions are worded very strangely. Reviewing the past quiz questions is also important as she does reuse questions from the weekly quizzes for the tests. I would recommend putting all the quiz questions on a doc to easily search through them. To study, I would go through the lecture slides and for each topic I would try to make a quick summary based on my memory. I would then rewatch the lecture for any parts I couldn't remember and add it to my study guide. Our class also made a study guide which helped a lot with Ctrl + F.
I didn't always go to discussion but if you're having trouble wit the concepts/didn't pay as much attention in lecture it's worth going to. In my discussion we just reviewed lecture concepts with examples. We got to take things a lot slower. I did not read the textbook after week 1 as the lecture slides were sufficient. It wasn't the worse class for me but I am pretty good at understanding fast-lecturers. The concepts can be tricky but none of them go too into depth either so they aren't too hard to explain.
You don't need to understand what happens in every experiment imo, you just need to understand the implication of the results. Wassum presents a lot of experiments and glosses over the details of their set-up sometimes but she never asks you to recall the exact set up of one specific experiment.

this class is not a walk in the park but it's not as completely awful as some of the reviews make it out to be. there is a lot of content covered in the class, and prof wassum does talk pretty fast, but she bruincasts which makes it easier to review after class. the first exam was definitely the hardest and everyone did a lot better on the second exam, so I think we all learned how to study and prepare better. the third exam/final was honestly easy compared to the previous two. just make sure to take as detailed notes as you can the first time around and rewatch the lectures to fill in any gaps before each exam. it also helps to make a group study guide and list of all the correct quiz questions since sometimes she pulls from those directly. anyways, it's a core class, and it's not supposed to be super easy!! you'll survive though.

Dr. Wassum is clearly a seasoned professor with a lot of teaching experience. Her slides were well organized, with summary slides every so often, and her lectures were interesting and easy to follow. It is important to take your own notes though (as opposed to just copying down slides) as most of what she goes over are relevant studies and her slides just show the graphs. I wasn't super passionate about the material (101C is much different from the molecular/cellular stuff we did in 101A and 101B), but Dr. Wassum was still very interesting to listen to. Her test was straightforward and she explained ahead of time what to expect and gave us practice questions, so everyone did pretty well. I would consider taking another class with her.