Filipino Psychology 1 Prelims

Islamized animism/Christianized Bathalism

Filipino religious psychology is best found in

Anitism

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

Babaylan

The _______ in Visayas are the important basis of early Filipino Psychology.

Baglan

The _______ in Northern Philippines are the important basis of early Filipino Psychology.

Catalonan

The _________ in Central Luzon are the important basis of early Filipino Psychology.

Babaylan

• the first Filipino psychologist

• A priestess and a guardian of Filipino sacred knowledge.

Dalangin & Bulong

rich sources of early Filipino psychology

Pulahanes

literally means “those wearing red” and also known as Dios-Dios, were the members of a religious revival of Philippine beliefs that developed in the Visayas prior to the Philippine Revolution.

bugtong

salawikain

kuwentong bayan

alamat

epiko

Early Filipino psychology is also found in early Philippine literature, be it oral or scribbled on bamboo:

Filipino Psychology

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

ethnopsychology

Handed from generation to generation are the beliefs and practices on childcare and the intricate knowledge which governs interpersonal relationships. The Filipino psychologist cannot gain knowledge in New York, Paris, or Munich. The best way is to actually live in the barrio where he came from in order to learn and rediscover Filipino psychology.

Agustin Alonzo

He was the first Filipino to finish the first ever MA psychology thesis in English at the University of the Philippines.

PhD in experimental psychology

After his MA completion, he went to the University of Chicago in 1922 where he received his _____ .

psicologia

term sikolohiya was derived from the Spanish ________ and the term itself was already a part of the layman’s vocabulary even if the spelling was standardized only much later.

Sinforoso Padilla, Antonio Isidro

Agustin Alonzo is the first American-trained Filipino experimental psychologist who is remembered for his classes in American-oriented educational psychology with _____&____ as students

Alfredo Lagmay

Among the students of Alonzo were __________, who later served as chairman of the UP’s psychology department for more than two decades

Estefania Aldaba

who got her MA (Psychology) in 1938 from the UP, and her PhD (Psychology) from the University of Michigan and much later held the highest position ever held by a psychologist in the Marcos government, the Minister of Social Work.

Sinforoso Padilla

who authored the Philippine Mental Ability Test

philippine mental ability test

The first attempt at local psychological test development

Pagtatawas

a traditional projective technique, which deserves more research space than the Rorschach in Philippine psychology was ignored as a topic for clinical psychologists and anthropologists of the future

Manuel Carreon

he modified test items to fit Philippine conditions

change apples to papayas

some understood part of Carreon’s message, modified test items to fit Philippine conditions, and got to be satisfied with what later known as the “______” approach to improving test validity: an approach to Philippine psychological testing

17th century

earliest known date of Psychology’s presence in the Philippines

University of Santo Tomas

University of San Carlos

the two universities where the Spaniards taught psychology in the 17thcentury

1926, UP

the First Psychology Dept. Was established in ______

Agustin Alonzo

became the Chairman of the first psychology Department in the Philippines (in U.P.)

UST

first uni to offer undergrad, MA and PhD in psychology

Sinforoso Padilla

established the Psychological Clinic at U

Jesus Perpinan

earned a doctorate from Iowa State University and founded the Psychological Clinic at Far Eastern University

Elias Bumatay

earned doctorate in Psychology from University of Texas and became the Dean of College of Education at National University

Estefania Aldaba Lim

first Filipina woman to get a Ph.D in psychology, from the University of Michigan. She founded the Philippine Psychological Corporation and started Psychology Program at Philippine Women’s University

Alfredo Lagmay

became the Head of Psychology Department in UP for 22 Years

Mariano Obias

earned his Doctorate in Comparative and Psychological Psychology from Stanford University and worked as Personnel officer of Caltex Philippines

Jaime Bulatao

established the Department of Psychology at Ateneo de Manila

Psychological Association of the Philippines

In 1962, the ______ (PAP) was founded.

Padilla, Perpinan, Aldaba-Lim, Bulatao, Lagmay, Obias

PAP was founded by

Virgilo Enriquez

founded the Pambansang Samahan sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino (PSSP) in 1975 and established an indigenized psychology in thePhilippines

Pambansang Samahan sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino

(PSSP) founded by Virgilio Enriquez

measurement, personality, child development

During the 1960s, the forms of practice were

social and industrialized psychology

In the 1970s, forms of practice were

Sikolohiyang Pilipino

The psychology born out of the experience, thought and orientation of the Filipinos, based on the full use of Filipino culture and language.

study of diwa

Enriquez (1985) later defined Sikolohiyang Pilipino as _____ (psyche)

cultural revalidation

means looking for the indigenous psychology from within the culture itself and not just clothing a foreign body with a local dress.

foster national identity and consciousness

social involvement

language and culture

application of indigenous psych in health practices

The Principal Emphasis of Sikolohiyang Pilipino:

Jose Rizal, Apolinario Mabini

they expressed dissatisfaction at the pejorative interpretations of Filipino behavior by Western observers.

Virgilio Enriquez

It was in the early 1970s that this was initiated when __________ returned to the Philippines from Northwestern University, USA with a Ph.D. in Social Psychology and lost no time in introducing the concept of Sikolohiyang Pilipino

Panukat ng Ugali at Pagkatao

A two-volume bibliography on Filipino psychology and a locally developed personality test, ____________ (Measure of Character and Personality), were produced

Unang Pambansang Kumperensya sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino

In 1975, Enriquez chaired the _______. In this conference, the ideas, concepts, and formulations of Sikolohiyang Pilipino were formally articulated.

Virgilio Enriquez

established the Philippine Psychology Research House (PPRH) which later became the Philippine Psychology Research and Training House (PPRTH)

Pagbabangong-Dangal: Indigenous

His last publication before he passed away in 1994, ________.

kalooban & kamalayan, ulirat, isip, diwa, kaluluwa

Enriquez with a definition of psychology that takes into account the study of emotions and experienced knowledge (_________), awareness of one’s surroundings (_____), information and understanding (___), habits and behavior (_______), and the soul (______) which is the way to learning about people’s conscience.

academic scientific & philosophical, ethnic, psychomedical systems with religion

Four Filiations of Sikolohiyang Pilipino

academic scientific psychology

the Western tradition - This coincided with the birth of scientific psychology (German tradition) in 1876, and the entry of Western psychology (mainly American tradition) at Philippine universities.

academic philosophical psychology

the Western (mainly clerical) tradition -This was pursued by the University of Santo Tomas and later other schools of higher learning, under the leadership of individual monks and preachers and the Jesuits. The study of psychology as an aspect of philosophy continued in the of Thomistic philosophy and psychology.

• Psychology is integrated in medicine and philosophy.

ethnic psychology

Major basis of Sikolohiyang Pilipino for integrating academic scientific and academic-philosophical tradition into a national tradition of Psychology and Philosophy as universal disciplines.

indigenous psychology, psychology of filipinos, practice of psychology by filipinas

Three levels of Ethnic Psychology:

indigenous psychology

common to the Filipinos, culled from language, culture, literature, etc., psychological systems worked out by Filipinos with indigenous elements as basis

psychology of filipinos

as observed by foreigners or as felt and expressed by Filipinos

Enculturation/Socialization

Indigenous techniques or as affected by Christianity or Islam; survival up to these days are based on child rearing techniques; use of literature, beliefs, legends, myths, etc., for social control and for setting ideal personality

psychomedical systems with religion

considered to be 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.

cross-indigenous, multimethod, multi-language, appropriate field methods, tirangulation approach

Principal methods of investigation the Sikolohiyang Pilipino encourages:

sikolohiyang malaya

against the imposition to a 3rd world country of psych developed in industrialized countries

sikolohiyang mapaglaya

3 primary areas of protest

sikolohiyang mapaglaya

(liberating Psychology) denounces an elite oriented psychology used for the exploitation of the masses

sikolohiyang malaya

In terms of areas of protest, Sikolohiyang Pilipino is against a psychology that perpetuates the colonial

western educated industrialized rich democratic

WEIRD

marginalization

distortion

alienation

This is not to reject the WEIRD Psychology in explaining Filipino behaviors and cultures but to avoid the danger of blind faith on Western Psychology which leads to a “copycat psychology”. This copycat psychology further impacts the colonial status of the mind through:

marginalization

exclusion of local experiences

distortion

thwarted understanding and beliefs on local experiences.

alienation

removing psychology from the experiences of the ordinary Filipino (authenticity of understanding psychology in lieu of the Filipino’s perspective is removed)

pagtatanong

pakikiramdam

panunuluyan

pakikipamuhay

Some methods in Gathering data on the Filipino Psyche: