Final is rough. Lots of group work. Online quizzes will bring your grade down. Good luck on the final.

I would not take this class. The final was impossible and I got a D on it and I studied so hard.

Class is great! Took this class first quarter of my freshman year. I went in very anxious and basically prepared to get grades I was not going to be proud of . However, this proved to not be the case. PSYCH 10 was a very interesting and engaging class. Prof. was very organized and the expectations for the class were very apparent. She shares slides and outlines of lectures with students and the course is also recorded.

With Paquette-Smith we would lecture entirely on the first day of the week and on the second day split between lecture and in class lab. Everything is very manageable, reading was dense at times, but also very helpful as a supplement to her lectures.

I got an A on both the midterm and final and finished the class with a high A. The TAs and LAs for this course are great. I would highly recommend this course with this professor to absolutely anyone!!

Great professor :)

I enjoyed this class a lot! I felt that it gave a great overview of psychology. I appreciated Prof. Paquette-Smith's ability to be flexible for her students due to COVID and I felt that she was fair and understanding. I personally like when professors follow their slides, and she definitely did this. I also liked the asynchronous format . There are many small weekly assignments and allowing students to watch lectures and complete these by Sunday lets students plan their weeks better. Overall, I thought this class worked well remotely.

Professor Paquette is so great! I may have had a different experience, because I took this class remotely due to the pandemic. Nonetheless, Paquette was very thorough with her explanations. There is a lot of material to learn, but I found it very simple to understand. I often paid lots of attention while doing her lectures, and found that I did not need to study much once the exams came around. Overall, Paquette is very clear, very helpful, and a queen for being so considerate of her students during the pandemic and during times where peoples' lives and well-being have to be prioritized.

I absolutely loved this class a lot. The professor is super clear about the content, not to mention that the content is extremely fun and fascinating. Every week, we have a maximum of two hours worth of lecture, and usually a lab or video assignment, article analysis, quiz, or some combination of these. The labs are usually pretty simple; as long as you watch the lectures and look at the lab slides, they should be pretty easy. The video assignments are a bit more annoying, because she wants you to follow specific guidelines, but still stay within the allotted time. The article analyses were a bit more challenging for me, because they involve reading actual scientific papers and noting down certain aspects of them. The quizzes were pretty easy, and focused more on application than pure memorization. The midterm was very similar to the quiz, but differed in that there was a written portion to it. However, it was easy nonetheless. We also had a group lab project two times the whole quarter, which involved designing a study, running it, and individually writing about it.

Overall, the class is an easy A if you stay on top of your work. It can be a lot of material and assignments, but nothing too complicated. The professor is also very accommodating, and made the final optional.

I would highly recommend taking this class with this prof. Smith's slides contain a lot of info, but they are easy enough to follow and as long as you take good notes, you're set for the exams. There was no textbook for this course, and all of the exam material is covered on her slides. She is super engaging, kind, and understanding if you have any issues regarding the group projects, video assignments, homework, etc. The workload is somewhat heavy but pretty easy if you pay attention during lecture. Smith is arguably one of my favorite professors !! If your not a psych or neuro major I would still definitely recommend taking this course since it's a pretty easy GE!

Definitely my favorite class I took my first year of college. I highly recommend you take Psych10 with Smith if you can! Especially in your first year, because I actually got a lot of good study habits from her class :) I found myself always looking forward to her class and not falling asleep during it surprisingly even though it was so long lol. Usually the first half is regular lecture, a 10 minute break, and then the lab with your group.

Since I took it winter 2019, she made the final optional due to covid. I think at least her midterms are fair, because she really means that everything discussed in class can be on the midterm, particularly questions in her outlines. There is also a midterm review that was really helpful! So even though there is a lot of content for the class, she gives you guidance on what topics to study and expect to see on the midterm. There was also a group midterm, which was short and not difficult, and can only help you by a small %.

The workload wasn't overwhelming, maybe tedious since multiple assignments could be due in the same week. Such as short multiple-choice quizzes (timed, if I remember correctly), article analysis, and lab reports.

I really loved how straight-forward the class was. Because of this class, I decided to major in psychology because Smith made it very interesting and engaging :)

I took this class to fulfill some pre-reqs for some classes and graduate school, but I honestly thought the course material was pretty interesting! It's basically like the AP Psychology course you took in high school––so if you previously took that course this class can seem repetitive––but overall I enjoyed my experience in this class. Paquette-Smith does a great job of explaining the concepts, and everything you need to know for the quizzes/exams are in the lectures. I didn't go to her office hours, but from attending live lectures, she seems really sweet and is very patient with her students.

We didn't have a midterm, but we did have a few quizzes throughout the quarter, so I would advise to stay on top of all of the weekly lectures and classwork. Work can definitely pile up if you leave everything at the last minute, so I would advise you to spread everything out during the week. There is some group-work for labs, but the labs were pretty easy and were not worth a lot of points. Overall, I highly recommend taking Psych 10 with Paquette-Smith!