Sikolohiyang Pilipino

• In his address as president-elect of the Pambansang Samahan sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino, Manuel F. Bonifacio outlined a vision for Filipino Psychology by fully committing the association in the '80s to pursue more vigorously the building up of local data in order to contribute towards a better understanding of the Filipino and contribute to the attainment of an adequate well-being for our people.
• Relevance in Filipino Psychology is a commitment to understanding Filipino behavior in terms of Philippine history and culture.
• The most critical issue facing the social sciences in a developing country like the Philippines today is the question of relevance.
• Relevance should also mean being committed to know and understand the dynamics of our behavior and identifying and establishing the local resources of our nation.
• To be considered relevant is to be fully committed by being totally immersed in the dynamics of our society as it has evolved through time.
• Pagtatanung-tanong is a method where the researcher undergoes a questioning session with his kalahok or participants.
• In the method of Pagtatanung-tanong, 'lead questions' (those questions which directly refer to the topic being studied) are not supposed to be asked, instead the questions to be asked are supposed to have been derived from the kalahok's answers themselves.
• Tuloy is the root word of panunuluyan, literally meaning 'to go in'.
• Damdam is the concept of 'inner perception of emotions'.
• Pagdadalaw-dalaw is a method where the researcher occasionally visits the house of his host or tulay, as opposed to staying in the house.
• Pakikiramdam is an approach where the researcher uses entirely his/her own feelings or emotions to justify if his participants or kalahok are ready to be part of his research.
• Sikolohiyang Pilipino was liberated and liberating, eliminating its bondage to the Western perspective in theory and method as well as in practice.
• Sikolohiyang Pilipino became more responsible and responsive to the needs of Filipinos due to the philosophy that psychology should benefit and be of service to the people.
• Sikolohiyang Pilipino became interdisciplinary, enriched by the different disciplines to become more solid and closer to Philippine reality.
• Psychology is too important to be left to the psychologists alone.
• Indigenous Social Science and Academic Criticism support an underground psychology ready to challenge the values and practices of mainstream Philippine social science.
• The indigenous stance in “Filipinos, unite!” was not seen as at loggerheads with the Marxist stance in the slogan “Workers of the world unite!”.
• Imbued with a dynamism and a commitment to indigenous Filipino psychology in music and the arts, Felipe de Leon, Jr.
• It is not enough for a psychologist of language to discover that community children have low recall for action verbs as compared with other words.
• Sikolohiyang Pilipino is a move towards the development of rural psychology.
• The Bulacan Community Field Station (BCFS) was established for the purpose of developing a practical site for community psychology.
• Sinforoso Padilla provoked the curiosity and interest of his psychology students in the 1930s by taking them to natural campus settings outside the classroom.
• Western-oriented psychology, as Durganand Sinha observed in his invitational address to the International Congress of Psychology in Acapulco, Mexico, was largely an “urban” discipline.
• Research findings are discussed with interested parents and school teachers.
• Antoon Postma, a Catholic priest from the Netherlands who came to the Philippines in 1957 and worked among the Mangyans of Mindoro a year after, won the admiration of the association by delivering his paper in Pilipino, supporting the participants who resolved to use the native language in spite of the apparent change of heart on the part of the conference chairman who hosted the Tacloban conference as president of the Divine Word University.
• A training exercise for the children is developed and implemented in the community in order to improve relevant recall performance.
• Abraham Velasco, a forester and social psychologist, led the “PSSP” as fourth president from 1983-1984.
• The conference chairman, Leonardo Mercado, a Filipino Catholic priest who delivered his talk in Pilipino at the First National Conference in Diliman in 1975, insisted on publishing the conference proceedings in English, a controversial move which eventually led to the formal inclusion of an article on language in the amended PSSP constitution mandating that all conferences, seminars, meetings, and official publications of the association shall be in the national language of the Philippines.
• Exogenous indigenization can be inappropriate and naive while endogenous indigenization must avoid a sentimental attachment to the past and be critical of local as well as Western values and wary of external social control masquerading as “academic criticism.”
• Criticisms in Sikolohiyang Pilipino include the perception that Filipino-Americans are not “Filipinos” since they are not legitimate culture bearers, do not share the Philippine cultural experience, and hardly speak any Philippine language.
• Filipino-Americans do not have what both Salazar and Enriquez call a “national consciousness” precisely because they are “outsiders” and unable to participate in the national discourse that shapes consciousness.
• The names of 'Papa' Isio and Estrella Bangutbangwa were at long last heard.
• Science teaching in the Philippines is still primarily done in the colonial language.
• Bautista focused her initial efforts on the scientific study of Philippine morality and ethics and the indigenization of theology.
• SPSW has been active with seminars held once or twice a year.
• Catholic Bathalism merits a very high priority in a Filipino-oriented psychology.
• Pagkatao coincides with the concept of character in an essentialist, one could even say, ontological, sense.
• Pagkamakatao is the state or mode of being human.
• Dionisio Miranda (1987) of the Society of Divine Word provided valuable insight by showing the centrality of pagkamakatao as 'virtue' in Filipino character and ethics.
• Asal-tao (human conduct) - Pagkamakatao (humaneness), being human in the sense of being, behaving, and relating in a human manner.