The class was a ton of work, but the curve helps a lot.

professor A is a great lecturer, but this class honestly sucks. The material is pretty basic and easy but the TAs are instructed to grade so harshly on labs and the tests are super confusing

Exams and lecture material were not difficult as long as you read the textbook!

This class was very fun to learn and professor was great. There are two exams, final is not cumulative (each 100 points). There is also hw about every other week, totaling 6 for the quarter (8 per hw totaling 48, plus 2 extra if every hw is completed). Highly recommend!

Professor Ankowski is a really good lecturer! She is very passionate about the course content and she uses great examples, especially from her personal life, to illustrate the concepts of the course. This class just consists of two lectures each week, where you simply go into the lecture hall and listen to her speak. She will typically ask questions to start a discussion about whatever concept you’re talking about in lecture, but participation is not mandatory. Your grade is based off of two non-cumulative exams, and eight homework assignments. The exams are 50 multiple choice questions, and do contain a good amount of questions related to content discussed solely in the textbook, so it would be beneficial to at the very least skim through the book and make note of key terms. The homework assignments seem to be graded really easily, they are only 8 points, and just involve writing a 350-450 word response to an assigned prompt, some of which are really interesting, like “what lessons would you teach to parents and teachers about language development?”. Extra credit is offered: you can earn points by participating in up to two SONA studies and by submitting all of your homework assignments. Overall, I really enjoyed this class, and as someone who hated kids, this class really makes you see how intelligent they really are, even from utero, and it really illuminates how cool language development is for them.

Lectures were easy but the exams were SUPER HARD.

If you're reading this then you probably have to take this class. Psych 100B is an awful class and is designed to weed people out so the tests are very tricky and assignments are graded extremely harshly. Also everything is based on a curve so the only thing that matters is how well you perform against your classmates which honestly sucks. Only take this class when you have the time to put into it otherwise it will be straight up torture.
The professor is actually very nice and explains the concepts pretty well and is also approachable but due to the nature of the course it is what it is :)

Professor Ankowski is fantastic! Not going to lie, I was hesitant about taking a language development class and was convinced it would be boring and completely unrelatable. Well, I judged way too soon - this was one of my favorite classes I have ever taken in my life. Ankowski makes lectures so engaging and made an 8am worth waking up for. I didn't miss one lecture, simply because I loved listening to her speak so much.

This class was online because of corona, and despite the gnarly reviews for PSYCH 100B, this was my easiest class in spring 2020 quarter. The exams were easy, open note and everything, and if you understand the practice exams and questions you should do well. I got a great TA (Kashia) who made all of the expectations clear and was so knowledgeable and helpful. Honestly if you just follow directions, follow rubrics, and put in effort you should do well.

I took this class Spring 2020 (remotely) so my perspective of this class likely differs from most. The class was weighed 40% lecture (midterm and final) and 60% lab (participation, quizzes, group lab report, final paper, and other small assignments). The lecture portion, in my opinion, was fairly easy. The exams were timed and you couldn't go back to questions once you had answered them, but it was open note and i thought that the practice exams were VERY helpful in understanding how to answer these questions, and some test questions mimicked the sample exams almost verbatim. The lab portion is a huge toss up, since the curve is against the people in your discussion which sucks. I scored 1 SD below the mean on my first group assignment and thought it was impossible to get an A in the class based on these other bruinwalk reviews, but I still ended up with an A-. The quizzes were completion only, which boosts your lab grade, and due to the protests, our last assignment was also graded for completion. This class is so time consuming and will make you very stressed for at least weeks 7-10, but know that if you screw up on one assignment like I did, not all hope is lost for a decent grade.