I enjoyed coming to this class every single day. Professor Tomiyama made lecture so engaging and the material itself was super interesting and applicable to everyone and everything. Also no books at all which is a plus, just weekly readings that are often short. Three tests and you drop your lowest one so if you do really well on the first two you don't even need to do the last. 10/10 would recommend!!

Omg!! I cannot say enough wonderful things about this class/ Dr. T!! She is a fair grader (drops the lowest exam, allows extra credit), she is engaging and passionate, and the class material is interesting/applicable!! All I did to study was review her lecture slides (the exams are 100% based on slides) the day before and I ended up with an A *didn't even have to take the final*. Her weekly "readings" are short articles (usually two per lecture) and she asks 2-3 iclicker questions about them which are really easy and you will get right if you simply read through the pdf. You don't have to purchase anything for this class if you already have an iclicker! Seriously, this class is AMAZING and one of the easier psych classes I have taken. I learned so much and it was a GPA boost. I highly highly recommend!

While this class was incredibly easy, I can't recommend taking it. The professor is quite plainly a regressive ideologue, and it's apparent that this clouds her empirical thinking.

Take good notes during class, because that's what the exams are based on rather than the readings. But overall an interesting class that is an easy A!

One of the BEST labs ever taught by Dr. T. The class was set up in a way where the TA and professor wanted you to succeed and most of the assignments were graded on completion rather than correctness. Dr. T was also very generous with allowing groups to do work during class time which significantly reduced the number of times that we had to meet outside of class.
For the final paper, as long as you answered everything on the rubric, you're pretty much set.

Really enjoyed this lab and Dr. T & Kristen were the most helpful when we needed help.

TAKE THIS LAB GUYS!!!

Made an account just to review this class. I wouldn't listen to the last two reviews; Dr. T didn't even teach Psych 150 Spring '17 so I'm not sure who's posting those reviews. She's a great professor, and health psychology is a super new and interesting field to learn about. I'd highly recommend taking this class. Also, as long as you study the lecture slides before midterms it's not difficult to get an A.

THE TWO REVIEW REGARDING THIS BEING A DIFFICULT CLASS IS WRONG!!!!
Dr. T is the BEST professor I've had at UCLA. It sucks that my schedule literally allowed me to never attend office hours and couldn't schedule anything since my days ended so late.
She makes lectures SUPER engaging and she's so interested and pumped for health psychology that I went in with 0 ambition about it and came out of the class wanting to learn more and wanting to take another class with her. She is super charismatic and very engaging with the students. She uses Piazza and responds super quickly unlike many professors.

She's a VERY reasonable grader:

Exams: 3
-Drops the lowest score
-Completely based off lecture which is nice since lectures were bruincasted so you could always return to them.
- VERY fair exams
-No trick questions and no "All of the Above" or "Two of the Above" or "None of the Above" answers - AMAZING!

Clicker:
- As long as you get a total of 75% of the clicker questions (some points for correctness and others for just answering) you basically get 100% in the participation section of the class which allows you to forget your clicker at home or not attend lecture (although I recommend attending since she's a fun lecturer)

Extra Credit:
-She offered 1%extra credit for Psych Sona
-Offered .5% for doing evaluation!
-Thats like 1.5% extra credit.....

TAKE HEALTH PSYCH WITH DR. T! So good! You won't regret it. She's great and everything she lectures on it super relatable to real life. Seriously, the best professor in the Psychology department and at UCLA>

I highly encourage you to take PSYCH 150 with Dr. T! She is truly an amazing professor!
She gives lectures using Slides/PPT. Her lectures are also recorded on Bruincast. :) This class does not require a textbook. You will primarily read news articles and will be quizzed on them in class by ICLICKER or REEF. There are 3 Exams, however, if you do very well on the first two exams and are happy with your grade then you are not required to take the last Exam. Exams are pretty long (can vary from 50-70 questions), but the questions are very fair! Professor T also drops questions that the majority of the class answers poorly. If you participate in 3 psych studies then you will also earn 1 % of Extra Credit!