Robert Remez

Professor Remez was a cool guy—you should look into his cellphone and device rule and see if that'll be a problem for you, though. His slides have a LOT of pictures on them so I suggest going to lectures and taking notes so you know what's most relevant. There's also definitely some minor stuff that he says during lectures that can show up on an exam that you don't want to miss out on. Overall, I liked his teaching style.

This is a great class. It really expanded my knowledge of the sensory system and how that ties into psychology. Remez is a super interesting and well read professor. He will definitely go on rants and tangents that are not always relevant. The pace of lectures were typically pretty standard and if you ever missed anything he would record his audio and upload the slides after class, so you could always check something after. He is a little cooky and ridiculous but also entertaining.

If you actually read the textbook for the quizzes before lecture (it's not that bad), attend every class, and take good notes of both what you read and what he says, you will do fine in this class. He does sometimes go a little fast with his presentations (which are more pictures than words) and use unnecessarily complex language, but he is pretty understanding and will record every lecture for you. In my experience, it's an easy enough class to get into, 80% of the material is pretty interesting, and it's definitely not an impossible A.

Prof. Remez is a horrible lecturer and professor. His exams are nonsensical, he constantly goes off topic in class and talks about his cooking or the fact that he grew up in NYC. I know more about his personal life and childhood than I do this actual class. I'm not doing well in the class, but I know some people who are-- how, that I don't know. He does do this thing where you take online open book quizzes every week and that counts for ONE HALF of your class grade, where the three tests you take total the other half. So if you're not doing well, as long as you do well on the quizzes you should pass (hopefully). Honestly I wish I had taken behavioral neuroscience, at least I might have learned.

He taught a seminar that only had three people in it. Hes an amazing professor, but hes hard. He expects you to take the already complicated theories and apply them, but hes williing to go over it if you don't get it. This man knows everything there is to know about language and everything else, so it was really cool to have him teaching such a small class.

I thought this was going to be better than it was, but overall it was boring and hard to follow. He posts way too many words on the lecture, so it's hard to keep up, and he asks about very specific random things he mentioned on the exams.

If you want to just read the textbook or just go to class-- THIS IS NOT THE CLASS FOR YOU You need to go to lectures and do the readings in order to succeed in this course. There is also a lot of teaching you will have to do for yourself on the textbook readings and the class is more theme based. That being said the lectures can be incredibly interesting and engaging. I truly enjoyed taking this class.

I really loved this course! It was so interesting and the material was easy to understand. Professor Remez really wants you to succeed, giving a few free points each exam, always being available via email and office hours, and was very accommodating whenever I needed help or an extra day to do a quiz. The workload is very reasonable. The quizzes are pretty straightforward and easy to get 10s on - they're straight out of the textbook, and are actually really useful for reviewing. The exams are also pretty straightforward, using multiple choice, matching, and true or false questions. I highly recommend this class! It was so fun and I was sad when the semester ended.

AVOID. An incredible lecturer?! Is the person below me insane?! This professor is awful, he doesn't actually lecture about course material and you WILL end up teaching yourself this course and putting in hours of studying for a mediocre grade. Hence, taking this pass/fail. The exams were impossible (75 questions in just over an hour) and he actively tries to trick you and make the questions impossible to understand with unnecessary jargon (just so you know, the class average on each exam was between a 62 and 65, and the class high was consistently in the 70s, so let that sink in). Don't be fooled by his apparent charm on the first day, it translates to nothing but irrelevant lectures with tangents that make no sense. Take this class only if you enjoy seeing your GPA die a slow death and listening to a 70-something man stand at the front of the class and talk in ridiculous jargon for an hour and 15 minutes while you profoundly question why you ignored this culpa review. And if on the second day of lecture, you are frantically flipping through your textbook trying to locate where his lectures are pertaining to, know that you are just one of many generations of Perceptioners before you that had no idea what was going on. This man is a life ruiner. He ruins people's lives.

Remez. What a guy. If you ever read this, Remez: don't ever change. Ok that aside, Perception was a great class. I really thought that it was going to be terrible based on previous reviews (just read them - pretty awful), but I loved it. This class made me happy to be a psych major. The material was really interesting and obviously relatable to everyday experiences. The textbook wasn't my favorite, but I don't think Remez liked it very much either (it was the first semester using this particular book). But that said, I did get used to reading and studying from it. Yup, the exams are tricky, but honestly guys - can we stop complaining about having to take exams that aren't easy A's? We do go to this school, after all. If you aren't a psych major and you think that psych is a way to get the science requirement out of the way no problem, either don't take the class or PDF it. Done. He'll say it on the first day: to get your A, you have to put in the work. So, don't say he didn't warn you.