Sikolohiyang Pilipino (All)

• Assumption 1: Psychology as WEIRD
• WEIRD - Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic Countries.
• 93% of psych knowledge ared based on U.S. and other WEIRD examples. But account for only 16% of the total population
• Assumption 2: The dangers of blind faith in Western psych
• Copycat Psychology - It happens when someone who is exposed to a particular behavior becomes more likely to elicit a similar behavior themselves. (an effect of uni-national dominance in psych)
• Consequences of Copycat Psychology (keywords only): Marginalization, Distortion, Alienation.
• All of the consequences of Copycat Psych can lead to Kulelat Syndrome.
• Kulelat Syndrome - A condition where people feel inferior because they do not have access to the same resources as others.
• Assumption 3: All psychology is indigenous.
• Assumption 4: Psychology in the Philippines has not yet fully indigenized.
• Sikolohiya sa Pilipinas: All forms of psychology existing in the Philippines.
• Sikolohiya ng mga Pilipino: Product of angat-patong of WEIRD psychology.
• Sikolohiyang Pilipino: The interaction of the pure and unique Filipino culture as well as the Filipino culture as influenced by foreign cultures.
• Sikolohiya ng mga Pilipino: the science of theorizing about the psychological nature of the Filipino, whether from a local or foreign perspective.
• Sikolohiyang Pilipino is a product of the indigenization of psychology.
• Sikolohiyang Pilipino is an indigenous and unique form of psychology that the Psychology in the Philippines aims to arrive at.
• Sikolohiya ng mga Pilipino can be viewed in Filipino culture and experiences.
• Indigenization

  -        The process of transforming psychology to reflect local cultures.
• Indigenization from without - Contributions from WEIRD psychology are contextualized within Filipino culture.
• Indigenization from within - Local culture as a resource; integrating local knowledge systems into formal psychological knowledge base.
• Assumption 5: Culture as an organizing principle in Sikolohiyang Pilipino
• Culture - The set of ideas that coordinate the actions and construct the meanings of a group of people.
• Assumption 6: Worldview as an organizing framework of culture
• Assumption 7: The SP should also account for the diversity of the Filipino experience
• Assumption 8: The course on SP operates within a social justice framework.
• 1970 – (what year)Ignited the rise of Filipino Psychology as an indigenous viewpoint in Psychology.
• 1994 – (what year)The field of Filipino Psych suffered from the danger of being discontinued.
• Academic-scientific psychology: A filiation of sikolohiyang pilipino that coincided with the birth of scientific psychology in year 1876.
• Academic-philosophical psychology: a filiation of sikolohiyang pilipino that is pursued by the UST and later on other schools and universities.
• Ethnic psychology: a filiation of sikolohiyang pilipino that is a major basis of SP for integrating acad-sci and acad-philo into a tradition of psych and philo as universal disciplines
• Indigenous psychology - Common to the Filipinos, culled from language, culture, etc., (psych systems worked out by Filipinos with indigenous elements as basis)
• Psychology of Filipinos - As observed by foreigners or as felt and expressed by Filipinos.
• The practice of psychology by Filipinos- Normal techniques of enculturation or socialization, and protoclinical practice.
• Psycho-medical system with religion: a filiation of sikolohiyang pilipino where religion is the sole basis and explanation of psychology and medicine.
• Dangal - Honor from within; knowledge of one’s true worth, character, character, achievement, and success.
• Ligaya - Happiness from within
• Timpi - Control from within
• Damdam - Feel from within
• Puri - Honor which is physical
• Saya - outside happiness