This class is interesting and would recommend for non majors. It is pretty easy if you pay attention and go to class. Make sure to study once in the while for the midterm and final. The quizzes are open notes. The attendance is required which is graded. She lets you drop one attendance and one article analysis (meaning it won't count against you). The professor is very nice and kind. She has the perfect balance between reading off slides and adding more on the side. She's willing to clarify any questions you may have during the 10 minute break she gives.

The way the course is organized makes it easy to study for and very organized. Very basic psych information. Very similar content to AP psychology courses. Professor is super helpful and does a good job fully answering questions and making sure students understand content.

Take this class with Melissa! It was very well organized, and the content was really interesting. This was a rare UCLA class where it felt like the professor actually wanted to help us learn and do well. It is easy to get an A if you put in the time and fully do all of the assignments, article analyses, and labs and study for the midterm and final. (There is a lot of memorization). The class structure was straightforward, and she provided helpful practice tests. Lectures were recorded, but there were some group labs that were in person during the second half of class. She also posts her lecture slides and outlines, which are helpful for note-taking and review. I recommend taking this class and taking it with Melissa!

The class content was interesting, but I felt like there was way too much content compacted into 6 weeks. I knew going into this class that it was going to be more intense bc it was a summer session class, but compared to other psych classes I've taken during summer, this class had WAY more stuff to learn and the lecture was super dense. The class was broken up into mini-assignments, discussion section worksheets, lecture participation, 2 quizzes, a midterm, a final, and a written assignment. She offers extra credit through SONA. The professor and TA were nice and they were very approachable though. Just be warned that if you do take this class that it doesn't feel like a 4-unit class and there's gonna be a lot of content to learn.

I found this class interesting enough. The professor was nice, and her office hours were very helpful. The midterm and labs were really easy. The final was easy too if you study for a while.

Honestly take this class with her! I didn't put in the most effort and got an A-. The class is recorded which is nice cause she speaks really slowly so i like to speed up the recordings. What I was flabbergasted by though is that everything all quarter is at home and open book, whilst the final is in person closed book, which literally doesn't match with what we learned about learning in class. So she doesn't apply what she teaches.

Lectures were recorded, so attendance isn't 100% mandatory. However, there was small group projects that required us to be in class to work with those groups. This class was relatively easy and I had an A throughout the entire quarter, but I bombed the exam and ended up with a B :/. Midterm for us was online and open-note, however the final was in-person and closed-note, which definitely was a hard transition for me. I found the material interesting and she tried to keep lectures as engaging as possible. She did not hand out a lot of homework, and when she did, she gave us ample amount of time to complete it. I personally liked this class a lot.

A pretty easy class overall. The weekly reading is optional (I never did it and everything was covered in lecture) and the only assignments are article analyses, finishing labs from class, and online quizzes every other week. Lecture occasionally feels a bit long but she gave us a 10 minute break half way through ands sometimes had interactive activities during lecture which helped keep us engaged. The one issue I had with the class was that all of the quizzed and mid-term were online but the final was in-person so it was kind of a bummer to have the most important test of the quarter be different than everything leading up to it. Melissa was super nice and helpful though!

Overall, this was a relatively easy class. There is some busy work and some group labs, but it's all relatively easy and the material is rather interesting to learn. Paquette-Smith is a good prof too, she kept lectures interesting and is overall a nice person. Would take again with this prof

Paquette-Smith cares about her students and clearly likes teaching. However, PSYCH 10 is a really long class that caused me to feel uninterested in the subject matter. The homework load was not that bad, with weekly quizzes or artificial analyses. The midterm was online, but the final was in-person which was annoying because every previous quiz/midterm was online and open-note. Regardless, the final was not that bad at all. Melissa was genuinely very nice and I do not want to bash her class, I just had trouble focusing in her lectures.