PSYCH 121
Laboratory in Cognitive Psychology
Grades
3.71
Average grade awarded in PSYCH 121. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
77%
of the 896 letter grades
D, F or W
0.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 896 grades over 14 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 14 terms ran 3.51 to 3.92.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 159 · 17.7%
- A 379 · 42.3%
- A- 156 · 17.4%
- B+ 107 · 11.9%
- B 50 · 5.6%
- B- 18 · 2.0%
- C+ 5 · 0.6%
- C 12 · 1.3%
- C- 5 · 0.6%
- D+ 1 · 0.1%
- F 4 · 0.4%
- I 5 of 901
Percentages are of the 896 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCAULIFFE, SEAN PATRICK reviews ↗ | 3.71 | 3.70 | 202 | 8 | 79% | average | not teaching it |
| LU, HONGJING reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.80 | 159 | 6 | 87% | light | not teaching it |
| CHENG, PATRICIA reviews ↗ | 3.53 | 3.51 | 151 | 6 | 56% | average | not teaching it |
| CHO, SOOKYUNG reviews ↗ | 3.81 | 3.82 | 101 | 3 | 89% | - | not teaching it |
| MURRAY, CAROLYN ANNE reviews ↗ | 3.84 | 3.87 | 77 | 3 | 86% | - | not teaching it |
| HOLYOAK, KEITH reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.79 | 73 | 3 | 86% | average | not teaching it |
| DALLAVECCHIA, ALESSANDRA reviews ↗ | 3.52 | 3.47 | 56 | 1 | 55% | - | not teaching it |
| ICHIEN, NICK reviews ↗ | 3.83 | 3.90 | 28 | 1 | 93% | - | not teaching it |
| CLARK, COURTNEY MCCAULEY reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.96 | 26 | 1 | 96% | average | not teaching it |
| FUCHSER, VIYEHNI FREYR reviews ↗ | 3.47 | 3.30 | 23 | 1 | 43% | - | 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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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 3 courses long before PSYCH 121. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for PSYCH 121 in Fall 2025 and a department can change what it requires. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
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
Laboratory, four hours. Requisites: courses 10, 100A, 100B, 120A or 120B. Designed for Psychology and Cognitive Science majors. Laboratory experience with methods and phenomena from research on human perception, memory, and cognition. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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