PSYCH 85
Introduction to Cognitive Science
Grades
3.49
Average grade awarded in PSYCH 85. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
63%
of the 1,833 letter grades
D, F or W
2.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
78% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 1,833 grades over 16 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 16 terms ran 3.18 to 3.79.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 352 · 19.2%
- A 577 · 31.5%
- A- 226 · 12.3%
- B+ 218 · 11.9%
- B 186 · 10.1%
- B- 82 · 4.5%
- C+ 83 · 4.5%
- C 50 · 2.7%
- C- 16 · 0.9%
- D+ 10 · 0.5%
- D 11 · 0.6%
- D- 3 · 0.2%
- F 19 · 1.0%
- P 21 of 1,866
- NP 6 of 1,866
- I 6 of 1,866
Percentages are of the 1,833 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MURRAY, CAROLYN ANNE reviews ↗ | 3.51 | 3.51 | 480 | 5 | 68% | light | not teaching it |
| KELLMAN, PHILIP reviews ↗ | 3.36 | 3.36 | 334 | 4 | 51% | average | not teaching it |
| BLANK, IDAN reviews ↗ | 3.54 | 3.55 | 291 | 3 | 60% | average | not teaching it |
| SCHORN, JULIA MARIE reviews ↗ | 3.31 | 3.30 | 266 | 2 | 53% | light | not teaching it |
| METTLER, EVERETT WILLIAM reviews ↗ | 3.76 | 3.78 | 247 | 2 | 81% | very light | not teaching it |
| LU, HONGJING reviews ↗ | 3.43 | 3.42 | 99 | 1 | 56% | - | not teaching it |
| CUI, LUCY reviews ↗ | 3.60 | 3.62 | 70 | 1 | 79% | very light | not teaching it |
| WHATLEY, MARY CAROLYN reviews ↗ | 3.38 | 3.34 | 46 | 1 | 61% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
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Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
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In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours. Exploration of computer metaphor of mind as an information-processing system, focusing especially on perception, knowledge representation, and thought based on research in cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, and artificial intelligence. Many examples from visual information processing.
Sections in Fall 2025
From the people who took it
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