PSY112 L3 - Approaches & Methods

Lapit at Pamamaraan

• “Approaches & Methods” in Filipino

• approaches and methods are different from Western Psychology

Kalahok

• subjects or participants

• Equal in status to researcher

Umpukan

• “natural cluster” that serves as the participants

• Participants included as a group, not as individuals

Tulay

• “bridge” that introduces the researcher to the umpukan

• well respected member of the umpukan

Pakikipagkwentuhan (Kwento)

• Informal story-telling with an umpukan

• Kalahok do most of the talking

• researcher merely facilitates

Panunuluyan (Tuloy)

• researcher goes in/ stays in the home of the kalahok while conducting research with consent of host family

• Head of family = tulay

Pagdadalaw-dalaw (Dalaw)

• researcher occasionally visits the house of the host or tulay

Pagtatanung-tanong (Tanong)

• researcher undergoes a questioning session with the kalahok

• Questions derived from kalahok’s answers; no leading questions

Pakikiramdam (Damdam)

• researcher uses their own feelings to justify if the kalahok are ready to be a part of the research

• Relies on the inner perception of emotions

Pakapa-kapa (Kapa)

• researcher uses groping (mix of feelings & circumstances) to justify research

• Unsystemized mass of social and cultural data to obtain order, meaning, direction for research

• Rooted in the word for “to grope in the dark”

Ginabayang-Talakayan

• collective indigenous discussion

Nakikiugaling-Pagmamasid

• participant observation

Pakikisama

• getting along with