She doesn't cover anything in class barely, skips over a lot of concepts or barely touches in on them, and gives a lot of trick questions with more than one right answer on her exams. Feels like she expects us to teach ourselves but yet expects us to attend. Her notes are complete trash with nothing on them. I do not recommend this instructor!

Wouldn't recommend. lectures are boring. Does not teach anything. Videos are useless.

Very disappointed in this prof, looks like her class was too easy last semester so she tried to make it tougher. Absolutly awful test and quiz questions, worst I've ever had. Reading quizzes are 30% of your mark but are often contradictory to the textbook, and each chapter took hours to read. Feel like she isn't very knowledgeable on the topic.

Expects students to be able to reason out riciduously worded questions. Can't explain anything further than the textbook does; lecture notes based pretty verbatim on textbook summaries. Weekly quizzes are way more time consuming then they should be for this level. Interesting material but choose a different prof.

Avoid her at all cost. Not only is she not a good instructor the textbook she uses is too advance for this level of course. Makes you question what you really need to study for out of all the info the textbook gives you. She provides little to nothing on her powerpoint slides and skips/barely goes over the concepts in the chapters.

Awful. Quiz and test questions are bad and she refuses to budge on poorly written questions. Seems to mock the fact that some students really want to get an A. Lecture notes are also pretty useless and vague but expects you to know every detail from the textbook. Regret taking this class with her, could have been really interesting.

I feel like the assignments do nothing to help us to understand the concepts. Powerpoints are useless, and she doesnt upload the lecture slides (she upload it after the class) srsly? I am really disappointed to this course because she got a very high rating last term, and in fact this is the worst psychology course ever.

she is not an experienced prof, her notes are empty and a few points from textbook. just reads off the textbook, doesn't explain anything. textbook is interesting but really long, take 4-5 hour to read a chapter. exams are really hard and they assignments don't help to understand the material that much, she makes abnormal psyc really boring

A lazy prof. Makes students watch like 3-5 TED videos a day. And does not explain the videos or add anything to the video after class. She is very lazy. PPTs not posted, and jut reads her notes. She does not know anything about Abnormal Psychology. I don't think she is qualified to be at the U of A. Interesting material

You won't learn anything from this woman! She skips topics that are relevant and goes to talk about things that probably seem easier for her to explain. Puts graphs/charts on the slide but skips them. Going to class is a waste of time. She read off her notes word for word and it's all from the textbook. Doesn't give justice to abnormal psyc!!

DO NOT TAKE! The prof is lazy: does not post notes on time, the notes are useless (have no information in them), lectures are useless (reads word for word from the textbook), the prof teaches nothing. Exams are tough. You learn everything from the textbook. Would not recommend taking if you have 4 or 5 courses -- way too much reading.

I did not pay $800 to watch TED talks which I have access outside of class. Also who shows 4 videos all at once without explaining them to students? How do you think that is beneficial? Srsly this prof does not belong to the U of A community!!!

Terrible prof. Can't explain concepts. Get's snarly when people point out her questions make no sense/ have multiple answers. Seems more concerned with being "The cool prof who swears" rather than actually knowing or teaching material. Do not take. This class is boring and useless.

She shows a lack of knowledge of this course. I would not recommend. It also seems like this is not her field. I hope she volunteers to stop teaching 239 as it will be a waste of time&money of future students who will do the same mistake I did of taking this class with her. AVOID!!!

Great videos! Great lecturer! Awesome prof! Very helpful and really enthusiastic. You can tell she's very into Abnormal psychology. Oh and I'm a LIAR! If you want to HATE psychology forever take her class! (this is me being honest now)

Currently studying for the final and realizing how little she taught us. She covered maybe half of the textbook during class, and expected us to learn the rest ourselves. Not impressed at all. Makes studying for the exams way more time consuming than it should be.

No idea how to study for my final since she taught little in the class...

It is very possible to do well in this class. However, she teaches nothing. It's not about having your "hand held" through school. It's about the instructors being a useful resource, which she's not. I have learned 100% from the textbook and NOTHING from her. No class should ever be that way. Might as well have done distance delivery.

There's honestly nothing good to say about this instructor other than her being nice. Maybe "everything in the textbook is fair game" would be fair if she actually taught at least a quarter of the stuff in the book. She tests on the most irrelevant miniscule concepts that most students would miss when reading the textbook. Highly not recommended!

Not recommended! Really the worst prof I've ever had out of all my years at UofA! You literally had to teach yourself everything out of a really dense textbook and "everything is fair game". She really did not teach anything and her notes contained no information. She constructed the course poorly and exam questions would make you rage with anger.

Wtf,the final is incredibly hard and test on everything! Is that an LA teaching style?Emailed her for answer for final practices, and she said she would be back before 25th, come on! Are u f kidding me?

by far the worst prof i have ever had in my undergrad, she claims to put in a lot of effort into this class. Surprised she showed up to lectures. (didnt show up to the final) not surprised, it was kind of expected. AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID

All i ever heard her say was "dont be rude" um why did you curse out a class of 300 then? on top of that made exams so difficult, like how is anyone supposed to do good on them when all you did all semester was show videos and pictures of peoples dogs.

Just don't take her. The people that say she is easy are 1 in 100 students. Those are the people that get straight As and study 24/7. The midterms were hard, the finals were harder 10 fold. She gave us something called "multiple multiple" in the final which means there will be 2-5 correct answers for 1 questions, and if you get 1 of wrong you lose.

Exams are hard given that she does not teach anything. When asked a question, she could not even answer them correctly because she lacks knowledge about abnormal psychology. A nice person though.. it seems. I don't recommend this class and specially this prof.

Freaking Jessica never replied to emails sent before the exam despite her automated reply that she will reply on April 25... AVOID HER AT ALL COST!

You're better off just buying the test bank she used and memorizing the questions than actually trying to learn anything in this class.

This class was just horrible. You are mostly going to be teaching yourself. The final was terrible with her multiple of multiple questioning style. Run away or take with a different professor. Way too much work for a second year psychology course coming from a fourth year psychology student. She is horrible as a professor in this course.

Worst class ever. I failed my final despite the fact that I got an A before the final. Terrible. Btw, I got an A before final because I spend 6 hours a week to study and get a good mark in the open book quiz, but the large amount of studying doesnt help you to get a good mark in the final. Good luck if you are taking her class :)

dont take her class, i cant even rate her teaching skills, because in order to rate them she would actually have to teach. half the things she said was too busy to do are things profs are REQUIRED TO DO. I strongly do not recommend this prof, too many low grades on the final.

She gave out 2 A+'s in a 300 person class and maybe 10 A's so just let that sink in. Worst prof ever. Nobody got over 90 on the final, which is a pretty good testament for how high her expectations are. Way too much work for a 200 level course, coming from a 4th year student.

She should not have an email account if she can't respond. Ive never had a prof who doesn't reply besides her. She is very rude and not a good prof. Ted talk's should have a ratemyprof, their videos taught more than she did

This class tests your memory abilities NOT psychology. do NOT recommend at all..

Worst prof ever, she doesn't know what is she talking about, she basically reads her powerpoints which are exactly copy pasted from the book. she can't answer anyone's question, test too difficult. Rude prof, and not experienced at all. Expects you to read and memorize and don't care if you understand or no because she doesn't understand it either.

She tells you 1-2 points won't make a difference in her class and therefore you should not ask her to give you your well deserved extra point on the quizzes, however 1-2 points do count in her class because her grading scale is garbage. even if u get 87.98 % you will not get rounded to an A which is 88%.

Jessica is the kind of prof that will happily lecture you on how to format your email to her, or how not to be rude, but for some reason does not teach or lecture on the actual material. All I can remember from her class is videos, animal pictures, and her telling us everything negative she thinks about us. Rudest prof i've ever had in my life.

She doesn't actually teach anything, she just shows videos and makes useless Donald Trump jokes.

Has to be the worst prof ever. Only shows videos in class and doesn't actually teach anything. Course is entirely based off of textbook. Wastes 10 minutes at the beginning of a each class talking to students. Never ever take her.

Even if you think you know the course her ambiguous incomprehensible test questions will straight up tear your soul apart. You'll have to read every question at least twice to understand what it's asking, then she'll give multiple answers that are closely related. To boot- her grading will ensure you receive a mark vastly lower than you're used to.

Will not answer any questions. Any questions will be met with hostility and belittlement.

She relies almost completely on you reading the textbook and doing the MANY online assignments required. She only lectures on less than half the material covered, the rest is up to you to learn on your own. She spends most of her time telling inappropriate jokes and tells you that she doesnt respond to emails. AVOID AVOID AVOID

Extremely rude prof who is very dismissive towards students. She has a points grading system that required us to do chapter readings, quizzes, and multiple full-page writeups every week. Lectures use slides pulled almost straight from the textbook and she goes off topic and rambles about personal things all the time.

Worst prof ever. How is she even allowed to "teach"? She's so lazy she doesn't even lecture!

You can't have a midterm where nobody gets above a B-. Lots of homework and work for a 100 level course is unreasonable. Only shows tedX and her lectures regurgitate the textbook instead of her own words. Prepare to read a textbook and collude for the quizzes. You're gonna have a lot of work to do especially if you don't buy the online textbook.

If you're into flushing your GPA down the drain as well as the tuition you paid then I still wouldn't recommend this class. I wish I could say this class was more informative than the daily TED Talk videos we're forced to take notes on, but sadly it's not. Grading scale is seriously messed up.

Jessica talks about her personal life more than she talks about psychology, she uses the textbook publisher's slides, and she DOES NOT follow the syllabus. The course outline claimed that exams would be all MC, so the first midterm came as a shock when it was more than two-thirds written response. She is a terrible instructor in every facet. Lazy.

Jessica is an absolutely terrible prof, she relies completely on the students learning all the material from the textbook and spends more time chatting with students in the class and showing Ted Talk videos which she doesn't even test on. For a 100-level course there is a very heavy workload and her tests are ridiculously hard.

Jessica is a bad prof. She uses the textbook as a crutch and lectures contain no relevant material but forces you to come with random participation. Our midterm was a complete gongshow where she somehow miss-graded our scantrons twice. Very condescending to the class in general and on the overall was a lazy prof. Would not recommend.

When the results from the midterm came out, no one in our class got over 80%, and the class average was 65%. The students when to go ask her if perhaps there was something wrong with the answer key. She said NO. After the reading week, she said there was actually something wrong with the answer key and had to regrade out exams for the second time.

Swears in class so super unprofessional. 1 midterm which was really tough, no one got 100% and average was low. lots of reading. random in class assignments. Doesn't go through slides but expects you to know them + textbook inside and out. Barely teaches anything.

Always finishes early, shows lots of videos that you can watch at home, her lectures are so dry and empty, gives you lots of a assignments. A waste of time and money.

very poorly organized course class is just a bunch of videos but participation assignments exist so you have to go so many filler assignments and quizzes rarely posts lecture slides Overall, avoid this class with this prof

By far the worst taught course that I have taken. Very unorganized and rarely stays on topic while lecturing. Assigns chapter readings (30 or more pages in length), quizzes, reading assignments online or chapter summaries, participation assignments randomly, midterm, and final. Has high standards for students but does not have standards of her own.

one of the worst profs I have ever experienced. get ready to put in the work with weekly reading assignments, quizzes, journals, and random participation assignments. Her exams are very difficult, has a high expectation of what you should know, and a ridiculous grading system. Her lectures are often disorganized and can be rude and condescending

Ok I want every student who is trying to fill their schedule to stop and read this and SAVE themselves. I'm not into bashing profs BUT Jessica is absolutely terrible, like natural disaster awful. She marked our midterm wrong and before she realized it she said maybe we didn't "study smart". Not to mention the annoying assignments and tough grading.

I believe that she is truly a really nice person. That's one of the only positive things I can say about her. She gave us assignments & quizzes on subjects we hadn't even covered in class, and even then, only covered part of the chapter. Too bad, for a course with actually interesting content.

Jessica is not a good professor. She will test on things that she hasn't taught in class and not alter the grades when she's corrected. Tons of homework and assignments. Be prepared to teach yourself the entire course from the textbook because her lectures are not helpful at all. Not accessible out of class either.

DO NOT TAKE HER. So disorganized, received 3 different grades for midterms because they were somehow misgraded twice. Online quizzes are created by the textbook publisher and so are her midterm/final questions - except for the true/false. very textbook heavy. She also didn't even show up to the final, its been 2 weeks since and no grades yet

Worst prof I've had to date, probably the worst I'll have ever. Very disorganized, not professional. The course is basically just the textbook and the textbook is all you need really. Didn't learn from the prof, learnt from textbook. The only reason you go to her lectures is because of the participation marks that she randomly assigns during class.

This professor failed to properly grade the midterm and left me quite uninspired. The course had great potential but fell flat. You also don't learn much from lectures. I would not recommend this course to fellow students.

Participation Assignments: Random in class, she ended up giving everyone 100% 8 Quizzes: 15 Q in 15 min. On the LearnSmart website, all based from textbook. 8 "Journals": 1 to 2 pages about how the chapter in the textbook reflects your daily, personal life. Grades on completion. Midterm, final I will never take a class with Tomory again. Avoid.

never would I have expected to encounter such an incompetent professor at this university. I think the reviews below mine are enough to steer you away from this prof.

Seriously don't take psychology 105 with her!!!!!! The content wasn't super hard but the way she nick picks on details is not worth. There were also way too many assignments worth not a lot but it adds up....

If you're a type of student who likes to put in a lot of work into a course with the end goal of not doing well then this is the instructor for you! She's very generous when it comes to giving unfair questions. Got any question or anything you don't understand? Feel free to Talk to her since she loves to critize students for not understanding.