101 Fall 2020 Survey Results

101 Anonymous Survey Feedback, Fall 2020

What is something valuable you learned in this course that you will apply to your life?

How to objectively gauge situations in which it is easy to oversimplify. Having a basic understanding of yourself and those around you allows you to take a step back and read situations for how they really are.
I think learning about disorders will help me learn how to interact with those who also have a disorder
time management
Being able to diagnose the psychology of other people
I learned so much about the brain.
I know what cognitive dissonance is now. I now understand why all the Taylor Swift documentaries that my girlfriend forced me to watch weren't actually that bad.
Sleeping for a longer period of time is good for just about everything
Study tricks
I learned to understand myself as a human being and why certain things happen in my mind. I can apply the knowledge I have learned from this course because there is a reason behind it. I also learned that I need to push myself more to study for challenging courses such as this one.
I believe that my new knowledge on how memory works will be valuable
Understanding hormonal and chemical imbalances and the importance of sleep. I realized that i am one of those people that really need naps sometimes.
You need sleep so try to get as much as you can.
I found the section on conditioning to be very important and I see it in my everyday life now.
Different reasons why we react to situations
I learned more about myself and how to analyze personalities.
Learning about people's attitudes and why people act the way they do as well as explanations as to why I may act the way I do to better understand
people which will help me further my relationships with others.
nothing
I learned about many disorders and why people act the way they do.
All of the experiments we studied and analyzed.
It helped me understand people more and better analyze their actions as to gauge there personality. Hence essentially giving me a way to deal with people based on my observations. Of course, I do believe some extra-curricular study I did as a result of the topic being taught (Personality and The Self) was instrumental in this aspect.
How to analyze and address my surrounding based off of what I see on other peoples behaviors
I should take time and follow directions carefully
know better about my body and brain structure
I learned how to be more self-relfected.
Being able to understand some of the conditions people have
Pay attention to how your body is reacting
The relationship dynamics we encountered were really interesting to me. The sections on the self and personality was interesting to me as well.
I learned how other people might be different and learned a bit of a different outlook on how I view people.
Something valuable I learned was that not all classes are easy to take online and that moving forward I will have to be in person for some of them
Definitely some of the study tips. I am actually using those right now, it was one of the most eye opening things I could learn. I wish more people knew about them.
Learning about disorders seemed useful
I think a lot of it applied to my life. I did not care about the brain aspects, but why people act they way the way they do were interesting and I think will help my interactions with people.
Something valuable that I learned in this course that I will apply to my life is the chapter on memory. I learned different techniques on ways to remember things and I plan to use these techniques in the future.
I learned about my personality and how it can be affected by the people around me.
I learn about disorders and what may trigger them
I will apply many of the things I learned in the chapter about consciousness and sleeping.
About all the disorders and That everyone has gone through something
learning how people learn
Introvert and Extrovert. I thought they were how outgoing you were but they are actually energy level. I thought it was interesting how you can be Introverted and outgoing.
Definitely how we learn different behaviors
sleep stages
Having dealt with anxiety my entire life, Chapter 14 of the class provided me with general advice and tips to manage stress.
I'm not sure what specifics I learned that I'll apply to my life, but I think I learned more about how/why humans behave that I will definitely think about when I'm with others.
nothing.
The way I study and remember things and how to interact with others
How to avoid addiction
It helped me better understand how people feel in certain situations and this will be valuable to as I want to be a firefighter/EMT
It helped me better understand why we behave the way we do
Learning about peoples romantic relationships and how they function.
Information about memory/sleeping
Learning effective ways to study will help me throughout college and is very applicable to me. I have seen an improvement already on my ability to effectively study.
Sleep, Persuasion, motivations, Social Psych to convince people
Knowing which part of the brain does what and what can happen to it if it's damaged.
To know myself
Information about memory and studying
study methods
My favorite chapter was on social psychology since it applies to my career path and most of the information on social biases was extremely relevant to consider in political science. Many of the trials and studies showed in the lectures are quite memorable.
Almost everything this was all helpful
How our brain works and how we are who we are
The information in regards to how we sleep and deal with mental illnesses will definitely stick with me
how schizophrenia is affecting people
I learned a lot about the different primary "groups" of psychology, and learned that I may be more interested in Social, Cognitive, and Biological psychology more than I thought I would be.
Any of the study tips the book gave.
My dad professionally profiles for his job, so seeing and being able to understand some of the things that he does was really cool.
The most valuable take away from your class was how social media conditions us to use their apps. I find this life-changing as I have to spend a significant amount of time off social media after Iearned this. It has been a key factor in how I have been currently improving my life choices, and I generally wonder where I would be today if I would not have taken your class!!! Thank you!
how people think
The proper way to practice and the amount of sleep/what happens during the sleep cycle
Studying tactics
Class influenced me to look at my emotions through a different and more rational perspective
I learned more about studying and how to study better
The most important for me would be to understand my emotions and why I am feeling that way.
Similarities in people, how to connect , manage yourself better
Learning which neurochemistry might influence human's specific behavior.
I learned how people can be influenced which I can apply to my future degree in marketing.
Psychology
How to get better sleep
How psychology is as important as any other science
I learned how to better understand how my own mind works, and how I can use this knowledge to improve myself in certain areas of personal struggle.
Things about memory and how my own brain works
Emotions
I learned why people have biases, which is useful in the future career I want to pursue, and sleep facts that will help me as a sleepless college student and night owl.
What is something valuable you learned in this course that you will apply t...
I learned how the human mind works, in depth. Which will help me reach those needed as a marketing director. It also helped me be a more open minded person knowing that each individual brain works differently!
how the brain works
My sleeping and studying habits will improve. And this course has helped me understand people and social behaviors more.
Memory and how to improve memory
Anatomy of the brain, neurotransmitters, memory
I learned that while anxiety can contribute to self-isolating behaviors, social behaviors that make one feel a part of a community can significantly reverse symptoms of anxiety in the long-run
Improving memory
An understanding of how humans fundamentally work in terms of our learning, emotions, behaviors, etc.
It helped me realize why people with certain disorders act a certain way
The way people act around others and why they act that way
how to better understand my body and my mind, and why we do the things we do.
all material as I plan to be a therapist
I know why people act the way they do now
One thing I didn't know about was that when you're sleeping and suddenly wake up, you can train your brain to go back to sleep and continue the dream you were just having.
I have epilepsy so it was interesting to learn more about how to take care of my brain and the biology behind why I have sezires.
People have a whole life that they have lived that you have no clue about, sometimes it is better to just assume what they are saying is with good intentions rather than assuming the worst.
One of the things I learned from this course is the concept and impact of first impressions and it applies to my life as we all form and judge others based on these impressions.
social psych
One thing that I found very interesting and valuable is memory and how it affects us. I learned many tips that will help me going forward in school a long with future jobs that will help me maintain my long term memory better.
Definitely study tips for memory and sleeping wel
Seeing why people do things, choice or not.
i learned alot about First impressions I am going into sports business and in the business world first impressions are crucial.
What is something valuable you learned in this course that you will apply t...
I became to analyze surveys in the news more analytically and critically.
To first understand why one behaves the way they do and then react to the situation
I have a better understanding of anxiety and where it may stem from when I get anxious. Noticing more traits in myself and those of other people.
All about memory and brains, I can use it to judge situations.
I didn't really learn much in this class so I do not know sorry :/
I learned that emotion can be a massively driving force in the actions we take as individuals and being conscientious of the emotions of others can be very rewarding.
I learned some useful new ways to improve memory retention, which I now utilize when studying for my other classes.
I learned how my friends affect my personality.
I learned how tot are efficient notes from book readings to help me remember more.
I learned how to know when someone need help
I honestly can't say.
How a person's memory can work.
I learned that there are different ways in which people process things from learning things to remembering. I will use this to help me understand the difference ways people behave through out my life.
Because I am an economics major, learning social psychology was extremely valuable because economics is all about how people think and behave in groups. With this knowledge, I am able to create predictive models on how people will behave with their money and use it to predict economic events.
How different we are around different people
Learning all about the psychology of love
The science behind learning and how to retain info learned.
The covid studies and changes
I learned patterns in learning and behavior which taught me how best to teach little kids, because I work with them frequently.
I learned about personality traits. I will use what I learned to be able to spot personality traits in other people
to think before i say
The correct nutrients to eat to impact the chemicals in my brain.
That everybody thinks so differently!
Better way to cope and set goals for myself.
I feel i will be able to recognize behaviours of people and categorize them on how they act and decide if I want to be friends with them a lot better.
I think the more I learned about drugs the more I have no interest in them (although I was never interested in them in the first place, it made them sound worse then I thought).
how to communicate
Learning about how different personalities affect a team/group and how you can understand people and their thought processes to navigate a situation
Sharing my ideas more often with more people
I think it is valuable to learn about common behaviors in people.
A lot of people experience emotions similar to mine when I thought I was the only one.
The sleeping section and stress
I learned the way that the mind works when it comes to memory, the types of events that can effect the brain, and how important sleep is when it comes to memory, relating to college studies and the best possible outcome for exams.
Something valuable was that I was able to understand my way of thinking.
Memory and study tips, and also some of the topics in Chapter 14 to help better understand myself and what I am going through.
i learned new study methods and the true meaning behind some of my random emotions. it was also comforting to find that i am not alone and new ways to deal with some of my emotional breakdowns. i also learned new ways to go about my anxiety and mood swings
Not sure
It will all relate to my eventual career
Everything in this class was valuable to me.
Do not know yet, the opportunity has not risen.
I'll start using the memorization methods described in chapter 9.
to never judge someone for a mental illness / not look at them different
The ways in which people gather information short term and long term.
The sleep cycle and how different factors can effect it.
How we came to be who we are.
i want to be a profiler in the FBI so I learned a lot about brain activity. Need that!
knowing how different cultures express their emotions
I learned about different disorders and how to handle them.
The most valuable/memorable things I learned in this course were the sections on memory, sleep, operant/classical conditioning, and social psych. I love being able to bring up random facts I've learned in conversation and that knowing everything I learned in this course collectively will help me in my future career.
I am not sure of one specific thing, but I often find myself saying out loud, "well I just learned this in PSY..."
Pay more attention to ones mental health
Assessing relationships and understanding more about human connections and emotions. It allows me to be more mindfully aware of my surroundings
A lot of the personality and anxiety chapters helped me understand some feelings ive had and seen.
It’s normal to enjoy social interaction but still feel extremely drained afterwards! I always thought I was a bad person for getting tired so easily, but there is science behind this which says it’s perfectly natural.
I learned a lot about people in general and how they act with different stuff and learning all the brain parts and what happens when one gets messed up was valuable.
Everything in this course I learned a lot helped me understand psychology in my life.
how to destress
Memory strategies.
That everything pretty much involves psychology
Circadian rhythms, as well as discipline.
I learned more on how my biology influences my thoughts and actions.
operant conditioning
I will work on my sleep schedule now that I know what messing it up does to my mind.
That some people act a certain way because they actually don’t have any other choice due to chemicals in their brains
distributed practice is the best way to learn and improve memory
The knowledge of how sleep effects the brain and how i can actively practice sleeping better is something I will take into the rest of my life.
How to improve my memory retention
Sleep cycles
NREM and REM sleep + drugs.
The different kind of emotions and how to read them
I would say learning about the different memories that occur to our everyday lives that I can now apply the terms that will help my understanding of what is going on. I also learned how we learned with conditioned vs. unconditioned, along with observational learning and why it happens to us.
Being able to have knowledge about how others might think or interpret a problem
I learned how to core with stress and anxiety
How different people can perceive information completely differently from you.
Understanding that I can't keep self diagnosing myself, I need to get a true doctors point of view on this matter
The social patterns in humans.
I learned that I am really interested in child development from the little tidbits in chapters about the ages at which children develop senses and the way people learn.
Definitely the info related to memory & motivation
Knowledge about the brain
knowledge about sleep and emotions
I learned a lot about neurotransmitters and the biology behind mental illness.
Knowledge about studying well.
Life is literally just sensing things around you and perceiving it based on past experiences.
When we learned the most effective ways to study, and also when we learned about sleep, I now apply both of these techniques to my life.
I learned how to study better for tests
I want to be a doctor so I would like to apply topics about personality into my knowledge so I can better understand my patients and why they do what they do.
I learned about sleeping patterns which will help me in the future if my sleep schedule gets messed up again.
How to understand another person better
I think learning about emotions and how they impact us can apply to anyone life because you can not learn only more about yourself but also other people.
This was my first semester of college and I really learned how to study and take helpful notes.
I learned a lot of skills during the Social Psych chapter that I can apply in my life to benefit me.
the way people act
I think that the most valuable thing I learned is that there is usually an explanation of the way you are feeling.
The types of personalities with the greatest work ethic and career potential
It helped me better understand why we behave the way we do
Personality

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Fantastic teacher with a great teaching style!
Seems like a very nice lady
Dr. Jennings constantly kept the best positive energy and excitement everyday. Honestly best teacher i have ever had. 11/10
The way it was structured and the expectations were organized but the chapters seemed all over the place.
I really enjoyed this course!
By far the most energetic professor, she kept the whole class engaged and I looked forward to this class every week!
She always brought a fun and young light to the class that was refreshing because many professors are more elderly and not very exciting.
She made class interesting and always provided fun relevant material.
I love the way Dr. Jennings taught this course. She seemed like she truly cared about her students and answered students questions during lecture and went over the material every week in a way that we could stay engaged and involved. I feel that her tests however, were hit or miss. All of her tests included examples where you needed to apply the material you learned to get the answers to those example, but I do feel some of the questions on the test were very specific and some questions was material I was never even aware that we learned or even needed to know, and I tool very well detailed notes in her class and paid attention during lectures.
Had a great approach I would just have like to have had a lecture before we took the chapter quizzes and stuff of that nature
She was very quick to say "look at the syllabus" instead of just answering the questions then and there. She did a nice job at lecture but lacked any sort of personal or sympathetic aspect.
I did not enjoy this class. I loved psychology at first but i do not like how it was set up.
Dr. Jenning seemed enthusiastic and passionate about the subject which made it more engaging to listen to.
Super nice and seems like a great teacher, the class just seemed a bit hampered by the online circumstance.
I loved Dr. Jennings as a professor, keep the high energy up as it greatly helped me stay focused on your class throughout the year!!!
I don't like how if you're wifi crashes or computer freezes in the middle of the test, you can't retake it. How am I supposed to know when it is going to crash?
The reading were difficult to get through at times. I have never written so many notes in my entire life.
She is a very amazing professor that made me love psychology even more than I already did before.
great personallity amd engaging
I dislike the structure of the class. Everything feels scattered about with the Chapter guides, MindTap and the quizzes. I was given no notifications that we were just only supposed to read the chapter guide and not the textbook which could have helped me from doing poorly on the quiz. Having class after the homework is due doesn't help either and I feel the class meeting doesn't help either since it doesn't even discuss most of the content and there's no discussion about the homework. Yellowdig just adds more busywork and doesn't help much.
Made everything very easy to understand
she da best
Dr. Jennings is an extremely amazing professor. She is very understanding and fair with her decisions made for you. She is very organized with her materials and she makes her lectures very fun to take part in as well as she keeps the seriousness to it. I very much enjoyed taking this course with Dr. Jennings as my professor. No doubt she is my favorite professor out of all the professors I've had.
Fun
Was very understanding of our circumstances and wanted to help us
She seems like a really cool person, she's young and relates well with her students. The lecture usually does not cover everything assigned in the readings and she doesn't go too in depth which is fair considering we only have one lecture a week. She does make lecture exciting to attend and makes it easy to actively participate.
Honestly an amazing job given the crazy circumstances of this semester, I feel Dr. Jennings did the best she could.
Her TA'S were useless. Every question we asked they would direct us to the syllabus.
I greatly appreciated Dr. Jennings love for her subject, she made me truly enjoy this class
I loved lectures and how engaged Dr. Jenning's was every week.
I think that Dr. Jenning's is a great teacher and I would recommend this class but only if there was class two times a week. I think that fitting all the information into one class every week is too short and I think students would do better on exams if there was more than one class.
Nice batman costume
Dr. Jennings made a difficult semester easier and more enjoyable.
i loved the way she was always able to grab the students attention at all times. and i admired the way she kept the material new, even though we had already read through the lesson. she was also able to keep the class engaged in the topic by throwing in activities, regardless of class size.
She made lectures fun, I usually hate going to lectures but she was always having fun and making jokes.
very engaging and hands on with students.
Bravo!
A great teacher just needed to cover more in her lectures on what was on each exam.
I loved her class, and she was always enthusiastic about teaching.
So enthusiastic about the material! Very great teacher!
Nothing but positive feedback for her!
I feel like more than one lecture would’ve been more beneficial.
I highly enjoyed the engagement she makes into her lectures.
The lectures were interesting and fun
It would be more helpful if she was more direct with students when it comes to questions instead of just referring us to yellowdig or the TA's.
I already recommended her to someone and she's taking her class next semester! Really enjoyed it.
The only problem I had with the flipped course was that there were clarifications made in class that would have helped me do better on the quizzes, so I wish I was able to read before lecture, have lecture, and then do the quiz.
Great course and engaging zoom classes
Dr. Jennings made it known that she did care about us but also that she wouldn't lower her standards and protocols. She always directed people to the proper areas to ask for extensions and made it clear to use the resources she provided, like the TA's, if more assistance was needed.