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Originally Posted by xo.monica
I definitely wouldn't call it a bird course. I wouldn't call any psych course I've taken thus far a bird course, actually.
The material is interesting, yes, but Dr. Day (amazing prof, btw!) has pretty hard midterms, and he expects you to know the material very well, especially the numbers (population prevalence, and so on) for EVERY disorder, as well as the etiology (which can get confusing and rather long) of each. It's a lot of memorization and understanding, and a decent amount of readings to do.
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I'd agree with this. The course is essentially an exercise in memorization of extraneous details for the test. Readings make up 20% of the questions on the test. Personally, I didn't even do any of the reading. I had friends who did, and still didn't know the answers to the questions on the test.
There is an online test-bank of questions. Dr. Day will tell you that only doing the test-bank questions for studying is a bad idea, but it's what I did for both midterms and the exam. I finished with an 8 in the class (not the best, but since I had lost my motivation it was good enough). I had other, harder and more important classes to study for, so my "studying" for the exam was 2 days worth of test-bank questions ad nauseum. The questions *will* show up on the test, word for word, and they will make up ~70% of the questions on the midterm. The only problem is there may be 3 questions that are all worded 98% the same, but the 1 or 2 words difference will completely change the question.
But it got to a point where I was getting 90% of the questions right on the test-bank, and somehow I pulled an 86% on the exam.