PSYCH 119B
How Brains Learn to Construct Models of Environment
Grades
3.84
Average grade awarded in PSYCH 119B. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
85%
of the 119 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 119 grades over 3 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 3 terms ran 3.71 to 3.94.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 74 · 62.2%
- A 27 · 22.7%
- B+ 6 · 5.0%
- B 9 · 7.6%
- C+ 1 · 0.8%
- C 2 · 1.7%
- P 1 of 120
Percentages are of the 119 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHARPE, MELISSA J reviews ↗ | 3.84 | 3.84 | 119 | 3 | 85% | - | 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
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What comes first
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 115 or M117C. Designed for juniors/seniors. Every day we encounter something new. As result of these experiences, our brain builds cognitive models of our environment. This allows us to respond flexibly and efficiently when we encounter something similar in future. Discussion of types of models our brain builds that afford this flexible behavior, and how different regions of brain contribute in different ways to model building. Discussion of how different psychological disorders can be accounted for by disruptions in this process, providing key neural targets for pharmacological treatments. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
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