PSYC 2700

The first thing you need to know about this course (other than that it's overhyped) is that the grade is made up of ONLY 3 exams and clicker questions! There are no exam drops for this class, meaning that if you mess up one exam you really need to study your ass off for the other two. In addition, don't skip class because some days she'll give 1 clicker question and some days she'll give 5. That being said, the class itself is extremely easy. If you've ever taken psychology, you will know basically all of the concepts that are gone over. The material is very dry and you need to memorize some stupid things like names of psychologists and ages where a specific thing takes place. Professor Vaish is a very nice person and she definitely knows what she's talking about, but her lectures have made me fall asleep multiple times just because of how obvious the material is. The textbook for this class can be found online as PDF, but I stopped reading the chapters after the second exam because they're long and tedious (and have also made me fall asleep) and because you can find the important material in the chapter review at the end of each chapter. Other than that, I like how she gives a 5 minute break in the middle and I really support her no technology rule. If you can take this class for an easy A you should (especially if you are a CS major because this is an integration elective). Even if you're on the waitlist, give it a few weeks into the beginning of the semester!

One of the easiest and best classes I have taken at UVA. Professor Vaish is so approachable and really wants her students to do well. She does have clicker questions which require you to attend the class. Her class moves quickly and typically has a lot of videos and fun conversations about child psychology. If you want to take child psych, wait until Professor Vaish is teaching it! The spots move quickly so prioritize this class and go on the waiting list if you can. 10/10 class!!

This class was a breeze compared to any other UVa course. Prof. Vaish had clicker questions which motivated me to attend lecture. Otherwise, I feel like I would have never attended lecture and still would have done fine in the class. She is not out to get you and her exam questions are very fair. The baby movies that you watch in class seem like a waste of time, but they were quite entertaining. Overall great class if you need an extra elective or a psych class.

Easy exams, interesting content, nice prof, baby videos before exams. What more can you ask for?? Don't take it with anyone else, trust me.

Also, the biggest thing I took away from this course is that babies are smarter than I thought they were.

This is an easy class and you can easily get an A- or A without reading, but you may need to do the reading if you want an A+. It’s even easier if you took PSYC 1010 (intro psych) but you’ll be fine even if you didn’t take intro psych. Professor Vaish is easy-going and really loves the topic. She encourages us to take breaks during lectures and also has guest lectures from other professors and the class TAs. This was her first semester teaching this class online, and she changed the format from in-person to asynchronous pretty well. There were three non-cumulative multiple choice exams, each worth 25% of your grade. The other 25% of our grade was daily reading quizzes (4 multiple choice questions). We had a 48 hour window to complete the quizzes and the lowest 2 quiz grades were dropped. You can also get week-long extensions on two quizzes, no questions asked. It takes about one week to grade exams and you know your score, but you don’t know which specific questions you missed unless you ask your TA. You can see your quiz grade and the correct answers as soon as the 48 hour window is over. Interesting, easy class that’s great if you’re interested in child psych!

Honestly loved Vaish, she was really nice! This class was a bit dry if you've taken intro psych, especially in the beginning, but as the semester goes on you learn about some really interesting stuff, like the development of morality in children (which she's done research on that's published in the textbook). I'd get the textbook because there are questions she asks that she doesn't cover in lectures, they're also not too bad to read. The grade consists of 25% clicker questions (so show up to class) and 25% per exam (3 exams total). There's no final. The exams are multiple choice, non cumulative, and 40 questions long. They're quite easy if you know what she's talking about well. I'd recommend making flashcards for anything that you don't know. Office hours wise, she was really hard to come by as her office hour times were kinda inaccessible, and the graduate TAs were a total joke, didn't do anything or help review even though they were supposed to host "review sessions." Overall though this was a really applicable class thats useful even for non psych majors on how to raise your children. Easy A for the psych major too #tCFspring2021

honestly, Prof Vaish is like the sweetest professor I have ever met. She is so passionate about child psychology and you can really see her love for children and the topic itself in her lectures. she was very accommodating for the pandemic and zoom meetings, and everything was prerecorded. quizzes and midterms were released a certain time and to be completed within the day. I ended up with a B in the class, but honestly if you really study hard and know the material, it is certainly an easy A. This class has inspired me to take more psyc courses and continue to pursue the psychology major. so if you are interested at all in learning about child behavior and development and want an easy, lowkey psychology/humanities class, this is it for you right here. #tCFspring2021

I took this course online during COVID so keep that in mind when reading my review. Professor Vaish is such a sweet and positive professor. Although I found her lectures to be a bit repetitive seeing as how she simply restated what was written in the textbook readings, she did include cute videos about the topics and studies she discussed which were cute. Her exams were really straightforward. I recommend that you take notes on the lecture slides she provides and properly skim through the textbook whilst looking at the bold words and highlighted theories. What I would do before each exam is use the textbook practice quizzes under the summary section of the textbook, they were a good way to check my understanding. Her course was based entirely on exams and lecture quizzes. We had 3 exams (each worth 25%) and two lecture quizzes per week (which all summed up to 25%). There was no final in this course. I don't know how she will format her quizzes when her class is in person, but they were only 3-4 questions (super easy). The content of the course itself was also very interesting, we talked a lot about infant and child development, the many theories surrounding the different development processes, and the negative factors that can lead to underdevelopment or issues in adulthood. I highly recommend taking this course with Professor Vaish. I found that this was one of the easier, more fun and less stressful psychology courses UVA has to offer. Good luck :)

Alright, for all you CS majors out there who are trying to cruise with the humanities/unrestrictive elective, be warned. This class is not as easy as all the other reviews make it out to be. If you actually do some talking with people who have taken psych at UVA, all the psych classes are not as easy as they seem to be. I took intro to social psych thinking that it would be easy, and it was actually quite tough even though the reviews said otherwise. I should've learned my lesson the first time, but I took a risk in taking yet another psych class, and now I'm regretting it. I think for this class in particular, it seems easy cause in the past, the professor had clicker points as such a big part of the grade. But now, this entire class is made up of the quizzes and midterms, so if you mess up one, it's gonna be extremely hard to get an A. I took the first exam and it was much harder than I thought it would be. Every review was like "Oh, study for one hour. Briefly look over the slide and know the terms in the textbook." The midterm is entirely knowing every single vocab word that appears and knowing the specific studies and videos the professor shows in class. I do agree with the reviews that say if you study super hard for this class, it's easy to get an A. But I know that most people are taking this class to get an easy A without studying. So, unless you have a dying passion for psych, don't take this class. CS majors be warned.

This class is a lot harder than people initially thought!! The exams are difficult because they are meant to trick you. Also, Professor Vaish is such a sweet person but she talks incredibly fast and it's hard to write everything down that she's saying. If you're taking this as a filler class, I would suggest something else.