Filipino Psychology

60 million

There are approximately _ multi-ethnic and multilingual Filipinos who are primarily Malayo-Polenisian

third largest English-speaking country in the world

For the purpose of tourist promotion Philippines is billed as the?

medium

English is understood and spoken by Filipinos who went through American-oriented schools with English as the _ of instruction

Philippine Constitution (1987)

retained the English language as an official language but it is the Filipino language that is used across the archipelago by the man on-the-street on the other side of the Great Cultural Divide

False

True or False. Legalistic members of the elite accepted the existence of a Philippine national language.

Iglesia ni Kristo

What is the dominant homegrown religion?

Agoncillo (1974)

According to _ “Catholic Church are superficial Catholics, while those belonging to the Iglesia are devoted followers and loyal adherents of their Church”

christianized animist

_ form a majority in the Philippine Islands of Luzon and Visayas

catholic church

It plays a vital role in Philippine economy and polity

University of Santo Tomas

the oldest catholic university in the Philippines

Benigno Aquino

The struggle surfaced anew just after Filipino consciousness was shaken by the historic assassination of _ at the Manila International Airport in 1983.

Jaime Cardinal Sin

leader of the Filipino Catholics, appealed for “reconciliation with justice” as the nation recoiled from the shock of a politically motivated murder which ignited the spark leading to the fall of a dictator and a change in leadership

Islam

dominant in Southern Philippines as it is dominant in neighboring Malaysia and Indonesia.

christianized bathalism

Filipino religious psychology is best found in Islami zed animism or _

Anitism

traditional indigenous religion, _ (from the word anito, or ancestral god), and respect for nature, are deeply held in various aspects of life.

psychological knowledge

The _ of the native Filipino is traditionally held by the babaylan, catalonan, and baglan, it is an important basis of early Filipino psychology

babaylan

was the first Filipino psychologist, as a priestess she was also the guardian of sacred knowledge

dalangin (prayer)

The _ and bulong (whisper) of the catalonan and other healers and priestesses from different ethnic groups in the Philippines are rich sources of early Philippine psychology.

anting-anting (amulets)

The use of _ and other psychological practices and beliefs of resistance movements such as the Pulajanes (Constantino 1975) are all rooted in early Filipino psychology

Philippine literature

Part and parcel of early Filipino psychology is the psychology found in early _, be it oral or scribbled on bamboo.

proverb

the salawikain

riddle

bugtong

folktales

kuwentong bayan

myth

alamat

epic

epiko

ethnopsychology

inherited customs handed from generation to generation of beliefs, practices, intricates knowledge which governs interpersonal relationships

Filipino Psychology

is the attachment of importance to the Filipino and his consciousness. The totality of the Filipino--both his material and spiritual aspects--are given emphasis

academic-scientific psychology

The Filipino phase of _ began with the return in 1925 of Filipino pioneers in Western psychology belonging to the pragmatist-behavioral school which had just begun to distinguish itself from its European origins mainly the German, English and French traditions.

academic-philosophical psychology

for its parts, traces its roots to the establishment of a system of higher education at the University of Sto. Tomas in Spanish times in about the middle of the 17th century.

ethnic/ indigenous psychology

is a psychological system worked out by Filipinos from indigenous and foreign elements in response to their national and cultural experiences

psycho-medical system

with religion as the cohesive element and explanation can be considered to be at the core of native Filipino psychology. It is manifested through faith healing connected with the espiritista movement and techniques of healing through herbolaryo and other indigenous methods

sikolohiyang pangkabuhayan (livelihood psychology)

A distinct and important line of filiation showing the roots and development of the economic, livelihood, agricultural, business, management and industrial psychology is currently conceptualized around _

sikolohiya ng sining (psychology of art)

Great interest in the indigenous arts also motivates work on the traditional and contemporary people’s arts, thus leading to intensive research and artistic activities in

Lapu-Lapu

Psychology of the victorious _ who epitomized courage and tradition, is an important topic for a Filipino-oriented psychological research and study.

Lakan Dula

Manila under the rule of _ of Tondo

Rajah Sulaiman

who earned the reputation of being the “greatest chief of all that country with whom the terms of peace and friendship were to be made” of Maynilad

Diego Silang

The social psychology of the indigenous culture, rights and practices was staunchly protected by _ of Ilocos

Gabriela Silang

Upon Diego Silang’s death his wife _, whose name now rallying a cry for Filipino women

Tamblot

a babaylan or native psychologist-priest, kept the sacred tradition by establishing a major Visayan leadership in 1621, refusing to pay tribute to any foreign adventurer.

Francisco Dagohoy

Boholanos, for their part, enjoyed one of the longest periods of local sovereignty in the Philippine history, from 1744 until 1828, blessed with the Filipino concept of justice, equality and liberty under the leadership and authority of _ and his successors.

Hermano Pule

The great following of Apolinario de la Cruz, more popularly known as _ of Lukban, Tayabas, attested to his religious charisma and the local validity of his psychology.

1876

Birth of Scientific Psychology (German Tradition)

1920

entry of western psychology in UP and other universities; mainly American tradition

sikolohiyang etniko

major basis of Sikolohiyang Pilipino for integaratign I and II into a national tradition as Psychology and Philosophy as universal disciplines

Sultan Kudarat

Exemplifying Filipino courage and bravery was _, the ruler of Cotabato, who united the natives in their fight against foreign intruders.

Antonio Luna

The area of Filipino psychopathology could be enriched by drawing from the works of

Regino Paular

The thesis of _ (1987) pioneered in the areas of history and psychopathology.

Juan Masipag

We could learn more about _ by examining the psychological significance of Rizal’s “Sobre la Indolencia de los Filipinos (“On the Indolence of the Filipino”).

del Pilar

Substantial psychological insights can be culled from the woks of_ who reflected on psychological topics such as love of nature and nature

Mariano Ponce and Emilio Jacinto

The collection of myths and Liwanag at Dilim (Light and Darkness) by whom, which considered as valuable sources of psychological knowledge

Pedro Serano Laktaw and Isabelo de los Reyes

They contributed to the field of psychology of language through their works on lexicography and folklore

Commodore George Dewey

Philippine colonial education fostered the belief that scientific psychology in the country was a Western creation, a process which supposedly started soon after _ won the mock battle of Manila Bay.

American Colonial Psychology

undergraduate psychology courses in the college of education at the University of the Philippines

Antonio Luna

noble values in “La Tertulia Filipina” (The Filipino Feast)

1912

beginning of american-oriented graduate psychology in the Philippines

Agustin Alonzo

-Psychology chair in the State University

-PhD in College of Chicago (experimental psychology)

-Gentle handling of rats in a maze to provide “manual guidance”

psicologia

was not unheard of in the Philippines at the time the U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Paris, thus legitimizing the American annexation of the Islands

William McKinley

President of the United States of America who justified his venture into the Philippines on the basis of a dream and divine inspiration which spurred him to send soldiers to the Philippines to civilize and Christianize the islanders

William Howard Taft

He move to impose English as the medium of instruction in the Philippines

Philippines-psychology-as-an-American-creation-theory

The strong version of this “theory” states that Americans brought psychology to the Philippines together with the blessings of civilization and democracy.

Sinforoso Padilla

who established the Experimental Psychology Laboratory at the U.P. after his return from the University of Michigan in 1928; authored the Philippine Mental Abilities Test

Alfredo Lagmay

student of Alonzo who later served as the chairman of the U.P.’s psychology department for more than two decades

Manuel Carreon

• who took the cudgels for appropriate and relevant psychological testing.

• published in New York his Ph.D. dissertation entitled Philippine Studies in Mental Measurement

• Philippine Studies in Mental Measurement

• modified American psychological tests to fit Filipino conditions

• “change-apples-to-papayas” approach to improve test validity

   

Pagpapatawas

traditional projective technique

Major-General Leonard Wood

believed that the Filipinos were not “prepared for independence and that it would require much more time and experience before they could prove worthy of America’s trust”

Isidro Pansilagui

• was quick to remind us that “the language of the conquered may be adopted by the conqueror or vice versa.”

• Elementary Statistics, Educational Measurement, and Evaluation (lengthy description of how to compute the correlation coefficient.

University of San Carlos (USC)

oldest center of learning in the Philippines

1922

American Psychology had its foothold in the psychological department of UST and UP in experimental, educational, counseling psychology.

Joseph Goertz

Established the department of psychology in the University of San Carlos in 1954

Divine Word University

-center of psychological activity in Western Visayas

-Samar-Leyte Studies journal are from

-Where first regional conference of the Pambansang Samahan sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino (PSSP) (National association of Filipino Psychology) is held, Tacloban, Leyte

-Publishing of book Filipino Religious Psychology

Filipino Religious Psychology

The output of the conference is probably a landmark in psychological publishing in the Philippines -- a book entitled _

Tacloban, Leyte

is a center of psychological activity in the Western Visayas in view of the presence of a number of colleges and universities in the area.

Daisy Soledad, PhD

Headed the launching of the undergraduate program at UP Tacloban

Jose A. Samson

psychology professor and the first with PhD in psychology

Emmanuel Vit Samson

was a doctor of medicine

1987

first inclusion of the subject Filipino Psychology as an integral part of the undergraduate psychology curriculum under the leadership of Dolores de Leon

Colegio de San Juan de Letran

• founded by the Spanish Dominican in 1630 in Intramuros, Manila

• only school in Southeast Asia reportedly teaching psychology up to the mid-1970s in Spanish

Padre Cavero

a Spanish priest at the same university, who was writing his psychology dissertation, when asked why he chose to be away from his homeland, answered without batting an eyelash that he was in the Philippines in 1974 “to help civilize the Filipinos.”

Angel de Blas

• Spanish Dominican priest and philosopher

• founder and head of UST Experimental Psychology LaboratorySpanish

true

True or False. UST stand in the indigenization of Sikolohiyang Pilipino:

Acceptance is tempered with caution since research is needed.

St. Louise University (SLU)

• headed by Fr. Evarist Verlinden (Belgian Missionary priest), managed the Psychology Laboratory

• started to offer psychology as a major field for the undergraduate study in 1967The Belgian Connection in the Cordilleras

Psychology 228

Filipino Psychology: Philosophical Foundations and Problems: This course aims to orient the student with a broad perspective of the philosophical foundations of psychology.

“Barefoot Psychologists”

community psychology and field methods class at the foot of the mountain

Macli-ing Dulag

the leader of the Kalinga-Apayaos and Bontocs, was killed on April 24, 1980, for leading his people in the fight against the construction of the Chico River Dam

Alfredo V. Lagmay (1955)

• studies psychology at Harvard

• chaired UP psychology department (1955-1976)

• pushed for experimental psychology American

• trained with B.F. Skinner in experimental psychology

Ricardo Pascual

charismatic and controversial agnostic-philosopher

MAPHILINDO

President Diosdado Macapagal's _ (a Southeast Asian regionalism which antedates ASEAN)

Angeline Ramirez

who chaired the UST psychology department in the mid- '70s

Abraham Felipe

who studied the Psychology of popular Tagalog short stories before proceeding to Yale for his PhD in social psychology

Deputy Minister of Education

the Second highest position a psychologist held under the Marcos government

Robert Lawless

who wrote a critical review of personality and culture studies in the Philippines

Jaime Bulatao

• Clinical psychologist and Jesuit priest

• Established the psychology department at Ateneo

• Fought to teach Sigmund Freud

Danilo Tuazon

• studied in Keio University, Japan

• first perceptual psychology dissertation

Paz Policarpio-Mendez

• developed PhD level courses at Centro Escolar University

• included a course on Filipino Personality and Contemporary Sources of Philippine Psychology, taught in Filipino.

Centro Escolar University

published 1983 Panimulang Sikolohiya (first psychology text book incorporating Philippine research materials using the Filipino language) rendered in Filipino by Cecilia G. Valmonte

dalub-isipan

the NSDB committee’s Filipino term for the word psychology, meaning expertise-mind

isipan

mental in Filipino

dalub-isip

psychologist is expert-mind or

isaisip

Ideation is _ in Filipino

intelligence

isipnon when used as a noun but pang-isipan or maka-isipnon if used as an adjective