PSYCH 119J
Brain Bugs: Understanding Brain through Its Flaws
Grades
3.61
Average grade awarded in PSYCH 119J. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
66%
of the 164 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
1 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 164 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.48 to 3.73.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 16 · 9.8%
- A 55 · 33.5%
- A- 38 · 23.2%
- B+ 28 · 17.1%
- B 15 · 9.1%
- B- 7 · 4.3%
- C+ 3 · 1.8%
- C 2 · 1.2%
- P 1 of 166
- NP 1 of 166
Percentages are of the 164 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and no-passes (NP).
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 | Spring 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUONOMANO, DEAN reviews ↗ | 3.61 | 3.61 | 164 | 4 | 66% | - | 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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In Springs
Ran in 1 of the last 4 Springs, so it turns up in Spring sometimes rather than dependably.
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. Requisite: course 115 or M117C. Designed for juniors/seniors. Psychology of brain flaws and limitations to understand how brain works by studying what it does well and understanding neuroscience of why brain is poorly suited to perform some tasks such as numerical calculations, memorizing lists and names, and making unbiased decisions. Topics include memory (types of memory, false memories, misinformation and memory, memory capacity) and cognitive biases (framing, anchoring, and temporal discounting). Exploration of underlying neural causes of brain flaws and limitations in context of brain’s associative architecture. Basic neurophysiology, synaptic plasticity, cortical plasticity, neural basis of learning and memory, and some computational neuroscience. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
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