PSYC 3005

So you have to take PSYC305... this class was a headache from the beginning, starting with the psyc department's asinine waitlist procedures (they refuse to use the University's waitlist). I beg you to spare yourself and take this class with someone other than Professor Freedman. There are two pieces to this course- the lab and the lecture. The lab was great, and Sameer Bawa did an amazing job making it fun for our small section. The lecture however was a frustrating throwback to bad high school classes, this time in big lecture style for added fun! You will learn very simple concepts but at a frustratingly slow pace that makes lectures seem worthless, and then midterms will not test concepts that are not very relevant, but rather will test your ability to perform statistical analysis with a four-function calculator (required) and your ability to remember arbitrary rules Professor Freedman makes you memorize which do not even coorespond with other standards in statistics or psychology (thus why you have to go to lectures anyway). Avoid it if you can... or if you have to take it with him, don't worry about actually learning anything except how to "play the game" to get a decent grade.

This class is a game:
can you do 8th grade math on a 4 function calculator?
can you remember lots of un-useful terms and rules long enough to make it through a test?
can you make profound conclusions from remarkably un-profound observation studies?
Don't take this class if you don't have to, is all I'm saying.

Ridiculous insistence on 4-function calculator. Easy class if you've had stat before--unless you mistakeningly decide to not go to several lectures, so miss the deceptive way he asks questions. Kind of study-intensive for tests, b/c everything in the class learned is fair game (every test is cummulative). Lab takes a ridiculous amount of time, is graded harshly (ie: most papers have 1 or 0 A's for each ta) and the procedure for getting/switching a lab is ridiculous as well.

he is a hard teacher but in the end you will know the material

Psyc majors must take this class with freeman. attend lectures and go to lab T.A. you will definitely do well

Although some people think Freeman is too dry and doesn't explain the statistics aspects well enough, I really enjoyed his lecture. The tests got harder as the semester went on, but there was never an overwhelming amount of material.

material is boring if you're not into statistics, but freeman is really entertaining. he's kind of absent minded (he once forgot to give us the right lecture...he just skipped right over it), but really nice and gives you everything you need to know. all the equations are on the exams, and the questions are exactly like what you do in class. not as bad as i thought it was going to be

Memorize the notes. MEMORIZE THE NOTES.

Freeman is awesome. Once you get used to his teaching style the class is not bad at all. Mostly emphasizes his notes in class - you must attend class because the slides he posts online are not complete. There is no need to read the book, however. The lab grade is very subjective - all depends on how easy/hard your TA is.

thank goodness for his objective sheets before each exam. i probably would have completely failed this course without them. go to lectures. study ahead of time. this class sucks, but i really had no other choice as a psyc major.