*I took this class during the COVID-19 era.
This class was amazing! Professor Paquette-Smith made it very easy to understand and be interested in psychology.
All of our lessons were pre-recorded so we attended the live zooms to work on the labs. Our quizzes and final were both 20% of our grade. The lowest quiz grade was dropped. There was no midterm. We had to do lab reports which were fairly easy. We also had video assignments.
Overall, the professor is super nice and the class is pretty easy as long as you try. I would recommend going to Office Hours if you need help. Also, attend the live zooms if you can.

I took this class Fall 2020 during the COVID pandemic. The class was formatted so that each week we had 2 lessons posted on CCLE which each included about 1-2 hours of material. We also had live lectures on Monday that sometimes were mandatory. There was no midterm in this class, but there was a final. Every couple of weeks we had a lab which sometimes were a little challenging because the graders can be specific and quizzes which also could be a little tricky. However, it is not that hard to keep a high grade in this class as long as you take notes from the lessons. The final was not that difficult and was mostly multiple choice and had a small short answer section. Overall, Prof Paquette-Smith is a great lecturer and her lessons are very interesting. I would recommend this class.

Absolutely love her. You can tell she cares about her students and she is very passionate about what she does. This class was basically memory. Write down notes on the lectures and you’ll be fine. I probably would’ve had a better grade if it was in person and I was a little more focused. I loved this class though! 100% recommend

I took this class asynchronously, and it was pretty easy in this format, since exams/quizzes were open note and lessons could be completed at any time throughout the quarter. The professor adapted this class well to an online setting - the lectures were engaging and designed for learning; Melissa was a great professor and super helpful. I will say, however, that the workload can sometimes be too much, but it's not very difficult. Overall, I liked the content of this class, especially the focus on learning/studying techniques.

Melissa is the best, the setup during the online year has been really conducive to learning and student success in my opinion and she makes it really clear what our assignments are, when to do them, and what is going to be on exams. Loved this class!

Psych10 w/ Paquette-Smith was such a great class w/ a professor who seemed to genuinely care about her students. First of all, the professor showed support to her students by changing the course work grading scheme (basically made final optional for me b/c I did great on the midterm) during the ongoing racial / civil rights movement which I highly appreciated. Also, she dropped one lowest lab, video assignment, and quiz scores and three video assignment which really removed the pressure of getting everything done perfectly. I guess the workload often could be heavy if you procrastinate til the Sunday when all the assignments are due like i did, but they were definitely manageable and easy, Also, you had to watch the lectures and complete the questions between lecture videos (counts as video lecture participation) by Sunday, which was kinda annoying but helpful in long-term for me b/c the questions between the videos and watching lectures that counts as grade really helped me pay my full attention to absorb the lecture materials and do well on my midterm. The professor gives out a test bank which was helpful when I studied for my midterm which was easy as long as you paid attention during the lecture and took some notes down (you don't even have to technically cuz she gives out powerpoint notes, but you will miss out on some details), The video-assignments, where you have to record yourself explaining the answer to the question professor gives out for a minute without looking at a script, was sorta weird, but the grading was pretty lenient as long as you followed the prompt. Labs and article analyses were super easy along with all the reports you have to write after completing 2 easy group "projects" (you basically just have to make 2 simple psychological experiment / surveys); you only had to go on 2 discussion sections your entire quarter to discuss with your group about your projects which was great cuz I really hate discussions, and I was in a totally diff time zone. Honestly I can't really find any flaws with this class b/c as a person who has never taken a psych class before, this class explained the basic psych concepts throughly. Some assignment took more effort and time to complete, but they do connect with the ideas you learn in lectures and help you understand the material better. I enjoyed this class a lot so TAKE IT!

Course Grading Scheme:
Quizzes - 10%
Video Lecture Participation - 5%
Labs - 10%
Video Assignments - 6%
Survey Lab Report - 5%
Experimental Lab Report - 5%
Mini-assignments - 1%
Article Analysis - 3%
Higher exam score - 40% or 50% (you can choose)

I loved this class! It was genuinely very interesting and the prof structured it in a very organized/clear way. Workload was very manageable

Wonderful class! Relaxed, informative, and fun. Big recommend, Professor Paquette-Smith is very helpful especially so I recommend her especially.

I really loved Melissa as a teacher! Her lectures made sense, were very clear (that's saying a lot because I suck at science and I am a comms major), and she had a bruin cast that was really useful to look back on! I would really recommend studying for the midterm and the final though, because I got lazy and did not and it bit me in the butt. The only downside of this class is that there's a substantial amount of homework every week (article analysis, labs, etc) that makes it somewhat annoying and stressful. I really enjoyed her class though!

Professor Melissa Paquette-Smith explained all concepts really well and she used slides as the primary method of instruction. She answered all questions asked in lectures and tried to engage students even though it was a very big lecture hall. Lectures were long (1 hour 50 minutes) twice a week without any discussion session so it got a little heavy at times but Melissa would give a 10 minute break halfway through every class to help us focus.
There is a lab every Monday but it is fairly easy and manageable. The weekly workload isn't too bad: quizzes, article analyses and labs. The grading is fairly reasonable allowing us to drop the lowest quiz, article analysis and lab and there is 1 midterm and 1 final which are MCQ and short response.