Learner Reviews & Feedback for Social Psychology by Wesleyan University
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SM
Aug 23, 2023
Within a few weeks, I learnt a lot about Social Psychology and its wide application in society. The contents are interesting and insightful and it was a delight to attend Prof. Plous's class.
DN
Mar 31, 2021
I believe that every student needs to take this course regardless of the student's major. I thank God that I took the course. I am grateful for the financial aid that enabled me to take the course.
2026 - 2050 of 2,053 Reviews for Social Psychology
By ADILA
•Jul 14, 2024
I didn't receive my certificate
By Nadya M
•Aug 31, 2021
so many promotions for SPN
By Nando R
•Jan 24, 2022
No es para mi
By LOICE W M
•Oct 7, 2019
good so far
By Ananya I
•Dec 6, 2020
not for me
By Fueyo�herrera�daniela�
•Sep 12, 2024
regular
By Chris N
•Jan 23, 2022
The course had some interesting content. I was familiar with many of the experiments discussed but it was good to see them discussed more fully.
The course had two major weaknesses, however.
First, the lectures often made sweeping claims about behavior without defining a metric for that behavior, such as the claim that people are bad at predicting their own reactions to situations. What is the metric for such a claim? How accurate does a person need to be to be "accurate" or "inaccurate?"
On a related point, the questions asked of participants were often not well defined, allowing people to interpret them as they wished. For example, people might claim that a dispositional trait led to a particular behavior, but the psychologists claim that it is situational because most or nearly all people behave in some way. This does not differentiate between situational factors and moral agency, however. If a bank truck crashes and spills money all over the street, it might be true that most people will pick up the money, although it is not theirs. This can still be considered a dispositional trait because it is still dishonest to take other's money, and people have moral agency. Second, the course veered too far and too often into political polemics. I would agree with some of the views presented but disagree with others. In either case, I didn't take the course to be proselytized and many of the arguments would only be convincing to someone who was unfamiliar with the issues.
By Marie M
•Oct 19, 2020
Many, many people enrolled in this course cannot get past the Randomizer Assignment, which is the very first assignment. A glitch in the system seems to exist, and the only "help" offered is a repeated admonishment to read and re-read the instructions yet again. While the assignment and instructions may make perfect sense to those trained and experienced in creating such charts, the assignment and administrators seem not to consider that there is truth to confusion and inability of students to successfully complete this assignment, and not for lack of effort. It is indeed as confusing as the many, many students have written. Instead of chastising students for not following instructions--which many have, perhaps reconsidering this assignment would be a bigger consideration given that many well-educated students are choosing to unenroll/drop rather than continue in an exercise of frustration and futility.
By Jacky M
•Jun 1, 2020
The week one assignment won't ask me a question to finish the assignment. I've done all four tutorials, but there is no where to answer any question and I keep getting that I didn't finish the assignment. VERY frustrating. It is not working on YOUR end.
By Lenin L
•Jul 6, 2020
Didn't like it. Too much Social, very little psychology.
Platform was good tho, many external resources but the content in my opinion is someway biased into social comment.
I recommend it only if you're really into social type careers.
By Chor c
•Apr 25, 2020
The contents of the course are absolutely terrific, but the technical support is terrible; quizzes are not visible, and it is simply not possible to participate in the requisite class activities.
By Vitoria M
•May 2, 2022
Não consigo realizar as atividades por causa que as questões não são traduzidas. Mas o professor é ótimo. É triste eu não conseguir prosseguir por causa da falta de tradução. Abraços.
By Juan C E
•Aug 8, 2020
It dis not wok for me at the first assignment the links didn't work and I did not understand what I have to do. I contacted the forum and the response wasn't useful.
By Yiyang W
•Nov 8, 2020
Too many links, and I cannot open them, despite I want to learn more knowledge.
By Steve B
•Feb 12, 2022
Could not use randomiser to resubmit assignment so moved on to another course
By Dhairya V
•Aug 4, 2020
More of an advertisement than a course.
By Siddharth S
•May 19, 2020
Exam needs to improve the results
By Sabrin Y
•Jul 5, 2020
I don't get most of the lesson.
By Ярославна К
•Apr 18, 2021
Конечный тест был с ошибками
By Theresa E
•Jun 18, 2020
Confusing
By Laurie P
•Mar 30, 2021
Boring.
By Gegentana
•Nov 30, 2024
This is not at all the course I was hoping for. The teacher was so boring. He just reads out data, like a conference report, and it doesn't seem like a course for students at all.
By Lepidax
•Oct 4, 2022
The constant peer review tasks require way too much time and effort. Unnecessarily long and complex final exam
By Nathan J
•May 30, 2024
Payment causing me to cancel this supposed to be free course. Thank You