Professor Paquette Smith is great! She is very clear with very intentional slides and is super articulate. The material is interesting and the textbook is very fun to read.

She goes straight to the point no fluff at all and gives an excellent amount of resources—she even gives us a dedicated website for practice quizzes.

She is so sweet and wants everyone to succeed and you can feel it through the love and attention she gives the class.

The only problem I do have is that I wish she had more interaction with the students in lecture and walk around some. Although theres the campus wire I do want to hear and know more about her through her interactions with us. Great professor though, you cannot go wrong! She is ol' reliable. And also... EXTRA CREDIT!

Professor Paquette taught the material in an engaging manner, while also giving us an appropriate amount of work. The group labs were a bit of a hassle depending on if your group members do their part. Nonetheless, the professor makes long lectures manageable with short breaks. Loved the class, would take again.

This class was amazing! It was one of the first classes I took at UCLA. I did not take AP Psychology in high school, but the exam questions reminded me a little of AP Biology questions. There is a lot of memorization in this class, but Professor Paquette-Smith teaches you ways to learn the content efficiently in her lectures. Lectures felt quite long because they were 2 hours with a lot of content to cover. I found it helpful to take notes on things that I really wanted to remember in the lecture, then go back and take detailed notes after lecture from the slides posted on Bruinlearn and the textbook. This way i didn't tire myself out in lecture. I suggest making flashcards of terms that you can repeatedly study and add new terms to your set after each lecture!

interesting class but i personally found lecture to be a bit boring but to be fair i have a short attention span. sign in with iClicker, do the readings before class, take notes during lecture, do a decent amount of reading and you'll be fine in this class. the content is not hard in terms of understanding it, it's just a LOT of content so you have to learn a lot of info

Relatively easy class, iClicker is used every lecture and affects grade so I recommend attending lectures. There are group labs you do during lecture once a week and they're a manageable amount of work and sometimes you get to host studies with which you learn a lot about what you learn in the class. The professor is very nice and engaging, I can always tell she cares about teaching which made me motivated in the class. I recommend this professor for psych 10!

As someone who's never taken a Psychology class before, Professor Paquette-Smith was able to fit lots of content into a quarter efficiently, with ways for students to memorize and understand concepts woven into it. As a freshman, this was my first quarter of college so I didn't get the A I was hoping for, but I believe she gives you all of the materials and help you need to get one. Definitely do the Test Yourself practice (though I do think the midterm and final questions are a bit more difficult), and make sure you look at the rubric when doing the lab reports. SONA is super easy to complete via online studies. Just do it consistently over the quarter. Also, highly recommend doing all of your labs in person with your group, since you get extra credit for it.

Very easy class, class was a bit long but not the Professors fault. USe her test bank for the midterm and final and you WILL get an A, the questions are almost identical. All the material for tests is on the slides and she won't try to trick you. She is such a sweet professor, and incredibly clear. You will definetly get a good introduction into the various fields of Psych with her!

Professor Paquette-Smith was genuinely such a joyful person and made lectures enjoyable and engaging.

She gave assignments early on and was very helpful in explaining what we had to do.

Overall, I really enjoyed this class and thought the content was very interesting!