Interesting and crammable, a great WAM booster. I rushed through 8 weeks of lecture content in the last 2 days before final exam and I H1ed it. Meredith and Pier are the BEST lecturers and coordinators I've seen so far. They explained concepts really clear and they gave you exact learning outcomes of what you should've learned after each lecture. Practicals were easy and fun (I had Yana as my tutor and she was amazing). REP was hilarious and I recommend doing this ASAP so you can put it away and focus on other things (and get that easy 5%).

Interesting and not too difficult subject. If you watch the lectures, make comprehensive notes and do practice questions you can do very well in exam. I also loved the essay component. Very organised administration.

Pros: Definitely a WAM booster. Exam is ridiculously easy (mine was open-book). With some effort/dedication the essay is also do-able, lots of guidance is given, but don't procrastinate! 5% Research Participation is easy to attain. Cons: The lectures are pretty dull most of the time. Learning and memory (with Meredith) are okay, Sensation and Perception (with Piers) was very engaging but sometimes pretty challenging to understand. Neuroscience (Jason and Olivia) was just dull and difficult. Like somebody else said Meredith often left us to find out things for ourselves which is pretty annoying, and some of the learning outcomes wouldn't be addressed at all unless you did the readings/other tutorial prep work which sucked. Overall, not too bad, boring but easy.

Lectures were great with Meredith - easy to follow. The only issue I had was Meredith often left off part of the lecture for us to figure out on our own and would later answer them at a Q&A. Tutorials were boring to say the least..my particular tutor didn't really seem to know what she was doing. The biggest problem I had was the behavioural neuroscience section of the course. The first lecturer skimmed over many, many topics which made it kind of meaningless to me. I feel like she could have made it more valuable by focussing on specific examples (e.g. a specific pathway). The second lecturer had slabs of text which were confusing and convoluted. He used very relative, descriptor words to describe structures so it was hard to follow along. Also a peeve of mine is when lecturers have text over images, images overlapping, and the background was a weird brown so images and tables were hard to screenshot. (Although this subject didn't count towards my score, so I put in no effort).

Pretty good first year psychology subject. I really struggled to understand the behavioural neuroscience section... lecturer for that section was not very clear (Jason) and those topics are already quite full-on and not straightforward. Exam was hard for me, I was very tight on time. I preferred MBB2 only because the topics covered interest me more and so was easier to understand for me (e.g. developmental, clinical, social psyc).

Well taught subject. Some modules a bit longer and exhausting than others, but overall pretty manageable content. Tutorials were very relevant to lecture content and assessments had clear criteria. You do well on the essay as long as you do the assessment literacy module (a hurdle) which basically allows you to mark practice essays and makes it very helpful to write your own pretty well. The teaching staff a super friendly and approachable too.

A pretty good introduction to psychology. The exam was pretty simple, and the essay assessment seemed intimidating at first but wasn't that bad. It's a well taught subject (especially Jason's Behavioural Neuroscience and Dr Chris' Research Methods.) Really liked the subject but sometimes what needed to be remembered was unclear e.g. the visual perception and the learning and cognition experiments. Tutorials were fascinating and helpful in adding to understanding of the content. I'd recommend taking it though, the content is quite interesting!

Great introductory subject for psych

Most likeable subject I had done in 2019. The neuroscience part requires some effort but definitely worth the time going through all the lectures and would be easy to spot the patterns and master the module. It is absolutely fine without biology background. The Sensation and Perception, as well as Learning and Cognition modules can be abstract at points, but would be easier to do well with some understanding rather than just memorising.

Definitely a WAM booster! The content whilst might be a bit much, the exams are extremely simple