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What's with those shirts?
makes lectures interesting
Three hours of lecture and I don't get bored!
cool guy
a funy man
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Very clear lecturer, prepares you well, but exam questions can be tricky.
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turned me off of the entire subject 5 years ago
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funny guy
He makes me like to like learning liking things.
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He is such a good prof
great lecturer, good overheads
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buy the ace-it disk, he gets most of the exam questions from it.
funny prof
all round good professor
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good stuff prof
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He takes that extra step to make it relevant to everyday life!! A sure shot.
GREAT TEACHER!!!!:)
Buy the Ace-It, tough exam questions, very interesting lectures
soooo awesome....just listen up carefully and do the practice cds!
Find a copy of the old Psych Exam and Study It!
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Really knows what he is talking about, and enjoys what he does. find an old exam
I had a great time in this class and ended up with an A+! Now that's a good prof
Great class, kept it interesting.
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old exams will help you ace. he's pretty funny, good at relating things to psych
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Doesn't give notes. Lectures too long with no breaks. Get old exam. Awesome dude
interesting, insightful, a pleasure to watch
Clear speech, good humour, great teacher!
Really, really great prof. Only prof I've seen make intro psych interesting.
Goes all over the place in his lectures, what he talks about is never on the exa
FUNNY DUDE, LECUTRES ARE HARD TO KEEP UP WITH
very knowledgeable professor; great scholar and story-teller
You won't regret if you take his lecture, as long as you really study.
Annoyed me at first, but his sense of humour grew on me. Very knowledgeable about the material, so he tends to move too quickly through it.
I wish I had of taken 49.101 with him because I probably would have done better. Ace it cd all the way, and get someone's notes from a previous year.
--Ace it cd is essential, good prof
awesome!
What he teaches isnt on exams, fortunatly he recycles all his exams, you can do perfect in his class if you get the right exam
The best intro prof i've ever had. Makes the class a joy
quite difficult to understand his lectures, lack of lecture notes didn't help. very difficult to study from his lectures. although he is obviously a very smart teacher, I did not benefit from his teaching at all.
FLAME ALERT! Teacher needs a check up, (age about 50 something) so relax a little champ. Needs to retire, mr knowitall but the only thing he's smart in is book literature, not orally explaining things
if you study you're going to fail, if you do ace it and get past exams you'll do awesome... didn't enjoy his teaching style at the time, but compaired to others hes great!
excellent scientist; very good prof for introductory psych
A lot of info. in very little time. Exams are killer. Ace-it CD not very helpfull, basically you have to memorize everything from the lectures to pass.
This guy sure knows his neuroscience. He uses 4th year physiology overheads for our first year psych course!!
Excellent intro course to psych. if you use the ace-it CD and keep up with the readings and classes you are sure to pass.
Possibly the most over-rated psychology prof at Carleton. But use ACE-IT and you'll do fine. Don't let this prof turn you off of psychology -- it gets better.
A lot of info to take in a such a short time, but this guy really knows his stuff.
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I found it easier to take notes from the ITV tapes than sit through the actual lectures. He does cover a lot of material in a short time, but he conveys it clearly. If you take good notes, study them, and do ACE-IT, you'll do well. Didn't need the text.
DON'T BUY THE TEXTBOOK!
Might actually be the best prof in the world. Interesting, clear lectures with plenty of examples (that he will put on the exam) combined with an array of ugly turtlenecks= one good class.
This guy's a joke. Are we in high school. If you want an A, take this guys course, I swear you get one when you register. MAKE IT HARDER DANNY, YOU WON'T BE SUCH A JOKE. he shouldn't feel bad for making people fail. Hang out with the physics profs they'll
what a fruitcake
You have to respect how intelligent this boy is! Use the Ace-it CD and take notes and you'll do well. He makes the course very interesting!
In fourth year i still remember things from McIntyre that help me pass exams. Great professor.
Super smart but goes over things very quickly so not the easiest course to get an A in. Makes the course VERY interesting though, a great instructor
Don't buy the textbook - I never used it and still got a good mark. Good teacher.
Kinda boring, but an interesting course. And it's easy.
He is a very smart man. He does not use the text book at all. But his lectures are interesting.
Excellent Class. Buy the Ace-It! CD. It is now on-line (through WebCT) as well as ITV. Good way to watch and play solitare at the same time!!
Really quite bad. Pointless, unstructured lectures. Mostly memorization of trivia. Dumbed down waste of time. Melia-Gordon was much better. His only redeeming characteristic is that he's easy.
This guy likes to hear himself talk. Try spending a little less time on yourself (oh wise one).
did a great job at explaining the material. speaks loud and clear :)
When he says you should get the Ace It CD, you SHOULD get the Ace It CD!! You have it and your good to go!
Very knowledgable... absolutely knows his stuff. Funny guy... but he can definitely be cocky. Very easy class if you actually take good notes and study.
Great teacher. Definitely get his ACE-IT CD though, he uses all the questions from his own CD! PLUG? lol...it's definitely worth the 45$ though! He's very clear, 'cool' and funny. Such a fun class!
i loooove McIntyre! i'm only taking psych mayor coz of him, he's great! u sometimes feel he gives way too much info, but later on its amazing to know so much from only one class, personally, i love his sense of humour
Very intelligent and interesting prof, it is evident that he loves his job, gives great examples to aide his teaching, definitly buy his ACE-IT! CD (this is the key), a class that everyone will do well in.
two words - ACE-IT. Other than that, the lectures are truly entertaining, go for the fun of them, ace it for the real stuff.
This coarse changed my entire life. I am now studying Psychology for my major. Dan you really are the Man. How many first year students are taught by a world leading Neuroscientist? We did!
Superb quality lectures-excellent intro. to the cosmic field. Tons of interesting notes. 80% of exam q'ns based from lectures. I'd advise reviewing the tapes, as he moves quickly. Fair exams. You can get an A w/out the ACE-IT.
All of the exam questions are on the ace it cd or on previous exams!
Ace-it is a Godsend! You can only install it twice though. He's a good teacher. His exams are fairly easy.
Lectures are entertaining but not good for studying. Exams had lots of questions that have not been covered in either lectures or the textbook. In facts, exams seemed to be very loosely related to the textbook and not at all to the lectures. AceIt helped.
Instructed us to use ACE-IT CD, yet very few questions on the mid-term were the same. Read the book and watch lectures. When he tells you there won't be any trick multiple choice questions, it's simply not true.
Not easy to get ahold of. Great course. ACE-IT is not really as useful as they say, but it does help. Take good notes. Oh, and copy the data files off the ACE-IT floppy BEFORE you install it, and then reload those later. Then you can install it more than twice. It doesn't work on a mac, either. Grr.
the ace-it cd only helps those who take his ITV course in the summer with that hippy lookin' guy... hippy guy's summer itv course exam's mostly ace-it questions, exact copies. ;)
What a horrible teacher!!! His lectures put me to sleep and he rarely follows the lecture notes he puts online. His exams are extremely difficult and he barely gives out any help or clues or anything. Turned me off the subject completely.
World-renowned epilepsy specialist. Tons of useful info., if you're a great note taker, you'll do well since 80-85% of the exam q'ns are derived from the lectures. A wonderful intro. to psychology for the serious student who intends to learn. Not recommended for slackers. Ace-it isn't recessary!
how much you study is totally irrelevant to the grade you get. its based on luck. lectures are hard to follow. on the bright side, it's not a lot of work.
he has a tendency to digress form time to time,but his infomation is very relevant, and his classes are fun. even though i fall asleep sometimes.
the exams are horrible. i dont know where the info came from. the lectures are interesting but not helpful for the exam. he gets off topic a lot, although the stories are interesting.
Horrible teacher, exams are not from lecture or textbooks but exams from previous years. Boring lectures that put me to sleep - YAWN!!
You need the ACE-IT cd to pass his class, otherwise the questions don't seem to come from anywhere. He knows his stuff, but presents it in a way thats beyond 1st year level
Very good teahcer, gets into some material out of the first year criteria, but he explains everything in a way that is easy to understand. One of the more entertaining profs I've had so far...
Interesting class, but boring. McIntyre is relitively inanimate other than his hand-movements. It's better to study off old exams, or Ace-it than off of lecture materal as the course hasn't changed in years.
Excellent teacher who knows his stuff and knows how to present it in a way that makes it super easy to understand...got an A and A+ in his classes.
awesome prof. easy to understand. presents material in an understandable way.
Very interesting
To be honest, I liked Psychology before I took this class and now I hate it. He bored me to death, i stopped going to class and just studies old exams (ONLY OLD EXAMS NO TEXTBOOK NO CLASSES) and I came out with a "B". So if you want an easy course this is for you. If you want to enjoy Psychology I reccomend another Prof.
Class is _very_ biology based, so have some background in science before taking it. He had surgery during the time I took the course and ended up showing lectures from a previous year which didn't cover what he thought they did, so there were questions nobody knew answers to on the midterm (he did boost grades due to this, though).
I took his class in 1st year. I found his lectures difficult to follow and rather dull. The exam questions took me by surprise; didn't know where they came from. I got A's in all my other psyc classes, but a C in his. I would have done much better if I purchased the ace-it package...make sure you buy it and use it.
Very engaging lectures. He's very funny too, and his jokes and stories will keep you awake if you aren't a fan of the biology aspect of the course. Exams questions are straight from the ACE-IT, so mids/finals are extremely easy. And you come out of each lecture feeling like you know a lot more about humans.
A really boring class! He was very hard to pay attention to. Take the class with another prof.
This teacher was incredibly boring. After the first few lectures i stopped going to class because there was no point since i did not get anything out of his lectures. Best advice i can give you is to study off of his old exams since most of the questions will be almost identical to the ones on your exam.
your a retarded queef if u dont like mcintyre, he is the bomb, easily the reason i get A's in all psych courses is becuase the ground work he laid down in 1st year
I've only watched him on DVD but there's no question this guy is scary smart. Sometimes he goes into HUGE detail very fast, but you are learning from the best.
You couldn't ask for a more knowledgable man to lay the groundwork for your psych degree. He is unbelievably smart and shares some of the funniest stories about his family. I wonder if they get mad at him? I hope he never retires. He was the inspiration for my entire degree. I highly recommend sitting in his class. You won't be sorry.
He's one of those guys you either love or you hate. I've yet to meet anyone in the middle. I thought he was awesome. I learned a great deal from his lectures and I found his sense of humor and constant joke-cracking to make 3 hours not only bearable but exciting (I looked forward to class). He's also a freakin' genius.
He is a wonderful prof, and very funny. Adds in stories about his family or research basically every class, but it makes it interesting! PSYC 1001 is harder, simply because it is the more biological section. Exams are fair, but BUY THE ACE-IT CD. You'll do much better that way!
A great professor who simplifies things that would otherwise be difficult and complicated to understand. This Prof. really knows what he's talking about and creates a class that one looks forward to going to every week. 3 hours of class seems like 10 minutes with this professor.
omg- I cannot believe anyone thought he was good- this is not a science course...i hated him as a prof- he is conceited and does not care about what the students think. The worst prof i had in my entire university career. he thinks he's good which is allowed- but he's so bad in reality. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH HIM- if you care about passing...
Very thourough, class is video recorded, it helps, very interesting stuff
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Easiest course I've taken at Carleton. Don't bother going to the lecture. Just know the ace-it and see if u can get his old tests that are floating around. He takes about 90% of his questions from ace-it and old tests.
This guy is a legend, he is the only reason I managed to squeeze out an A+ in this class. You really have to go to class and get the Ace-It CD, a lot of the exam questions come from Ace-It, but you will not pass unless you go to class...some lectures don't even have corresponding textbook chapters so you'll miss a lot. Very interesting prof!
I also had him for PSYC1001 and he's been awesome at both. He's very smart, knows how to bring it down to our level and you actually come out of the class feeling like you've LEARNT something. Totally take his class - you won't regret it.
Lecture attendence is mandatory!!! ACE-IT should be use as reference if you want to learn the material and do well in future courses. PASS is useless.
Just great!
Mc Intire has changed his exams as of this year. He took a year off and in that time made it change. Acid is no longer the soul basic of the exams and old exams. He is a nice guy but its a hard course. He had to bell curve our exams. Our class average was on one exam was 56. Just think about that when your choosing him as a prof.
Lectures drift off-topic pretty much every class, which made it difficult to pay attention throughout the whole class. Exams are made to trick you and made the entire experience very frustrating.
Material can be difficult to understand if you dont go to class. The ACE-IT program provided is a huge help - definately the reason i did well in the class. 75% of exam questions were taken word for word from the program that the prof designed himself - those that werent were no big surprise because they were writte in the same format
Boring and hard to understand and sit through his lectures. I regret taking the class.
He is a scientist not a social-psychologist. So I recommend him for those who are interested in science. If you try you will do well. The ACE-it CD was awesome help. I still remember most of what I learned, even his cheesy stories/tangents. (I guess he's that good).
Not the best psyc prof, but alright. Certainly bearable. Go to the lectures, but read the heck out of the textbook first. The slides make no sense without context, so write notes. Shop around for Psyc profs before you register for his class, there are some excellent ones.
Ok so he is completly unorganized... he doesn't use WebCT or any powerpoint he uses overheads!!! OVERHEADS!!! << Way behind the times. IMPORTANT!!! BUY ACE IT!!!! STUDY ALL OF THE PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND YOU WILL ACE THE EXAM!!! <<< most of the questions are EXACTLY the same!!!!!! He is very boring and he rambles on about birds and animals!!
This guy is awesome, and the class is not boring at all.He is so funny,he's always insulting the slackers and they don't even notice.It's a survey course so there is a lot of info.Use ACE-IT,and read the text before class and you'll do fine.The most memorable prof I've had.
Great guy. Too bad he's retired.
Totally science based psych course. Just listening to lectures were not enough. You had to read the text and use the Ace-It to get anywhere.
Communicates well. Offers thorough lectures and extensive course material to assist with homework and studying. Lecture responses and article reviews are the majority of the work. Three tests. Will drop the lowest test score. Offers extra credit via Sona Credits. I enjoyed his lectures, he is comical!
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