Trott is my favorite professor. If he teaches a class, just go ahead and take it.
He is understanding, patient, and if you care to build a bond with him he will do the same.
Psych 118 with him was the move. 3 exams each 25%, not cumulative, 15% assignments (x2) , 10% weekly summaries. The class is definitely loaded with content, but all I can recommend is paying attention in class. That is really all you need to do to understand-- listen and ask questions in class (he always happily answers them).

Take this class! It was tough, but it was worth it.

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Really interesting orator. He's great at making difficult concepts more digestible and making the material more engaging. Would really recommend if you have to take 110. Everything in his class is fair, tests aren't trying to trick you, you get what you deserve and what you put in. Overall 10/10

As a psych major Trott is 100% my fav professor at UCLA. He is very smart and explains concepts very clearly, his slides are great, the assigments are always helpful for understanding content, and the content is interesting. I have taken 4 classes with him in the 2 years I was at UCLA and I cannot recommend his classes more. I also took 100A, 110, and 115 (over the summer online) with him.

I would recommend anyone who has to take psych 110 to take it with Professor Trott.
Firstly, the lectures are very engaging, and have summary slides that are very helpful. They are also recorded, though I usually chose to attend in person.
The weekly summary assignments are a wonderful way to have reviewing material be rewarded, and I was thankful for the multiple choice non-graded quizzes that were provided to review and test independently.
The only thing that was unfortunate was not being able to go back and forth between questions on the exams—I often like to check my answers at the end.
However, I understand it is to make sure that no one cheats.
I was able to learn about so many studies and found the psychology of learning to be really interesting. The material is taught in a digestible way; and the professor was always to answer any questions from students through in class questions or online discussion questions.
All in all, I really gained a lot from this class—of course the professor teaching about learning is good at making sure that we do in fact learn!

Oh also the textbook is not required reading, I didn't find it too helpful.

Trott is a great professor who clearly explains the content of 100a and is very understanding for any issues that may come up during the quarter. The class's content is not very difficult, and the lectures are very clear and offer all the information needed for the exams. I definitely recommend taking this class with Trott, as he is super friendly, funny, and kind.

Like so funny and weird class. Each time that you get a correct answer you get a ridiculous encouragement. I never went to lectures but I still mostly managed even though I am not a big coding person. I highly recommend taking stats 10 before this class so that you have a good R background. Also the professor was funny. The labs are dumb though hahah. Not that much work mostly doing the textbook.

great class for 100A, fully recommend

I thought Professor Trott was a great professor and really wanted to make sure all his students understand his course. I joined in two weeks into the quarter and he reached out to make sure I would catch up which I thought is very thoughtful and considerate of him. There were some terminology that I wasn't aware of and when he used them, I get lost in the lectures. However, I thought the class was easy and manageable if you made the effort. I would love to take him again!

Professor Trott is an engaging and passionate lecturer. I was initially nervous to take this class because I did not enjoy/do well in Psych 110 with a different professor. But Professor Trott provides extremely enthusiastic and clear lectures that actually made the material so much more understandable and enjoyable for me. He is very accommodating: he gives lectures in person & live streams on Zoom & posts the recordings. Your grade is 20% weekly online quizzes (only 10 questions each) that you have unlimited attempts on. The remaining 80% are 3 "midterms" and 1 final. They're all non-cumulative and consist of 5 short-answer questions. The nature of the exam format is a little daunting because they're all short-answer responses but I was able to get an 100 on each exam by just rewatching lecture recordings and spending time reviewing my notes and the study guide he provides. Overall, highly recommend taking this class or any other class Professor Trott teaches!!! 10/10

Dr. Trott is an awesome lecturer. Taking this course over the summer was very tough for me personally as I was enrolled in other courses while participating in a summer research program and working. We had 3 exams (exam every 2 weeks). However, I believe that if I had taken this during a normal quarter, I could have pulled off a better grade. Trott is very nice, accommodating, and an engaging lecturer. The content is very confusing but Trott gives many real-life examples that really put things into perspective. The average for the first exam was a C and the last 2 exams had an average of around 84-86%. Exams are open note but don't be fooled, the exams are very challenging if you don't keep up with the lectures and really get yourself to understand the material. I think the exam questions can APPEAR to be pretty easy, but they will trip you up if you don't truly understand the material and what the question is really asking you. I was confident about my last exam and still (surprisingly) received a low C for my score. Again, I did have a lot of other things going on during this time so that affected my performance a lot. Also, I personally didn't enjoy this class because this is not my area of psych, but if you love this content or even just find it interesting, you should do just fine. This is his area of psych so he's really passionate about the material as well.

Overall: Trott is the best to take for PSYCH 110 and even PSYCH 115 because he's not trying to trick you with the exams and he's also very accommodating. He oversimplifies a lot of the material too so that you can better understand it and the exams are in line with his way of teaching. I recommend taking this course with lighter classes so you can really focus on understanding the material for this course.