SikoPil

• Recognize the colonial nature of psychology in the Philippines and the limitations of WEIRD psychology.
• Discuss the nature of Sikolohiyang Pilipino as an indigenous psychology.
• Virgilio Enriquez, a Filipino psychologist, attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, to pursue a Masters, and later a Doctorate degree in social psychology.
• Virgilio Enriquez stated that a Filipino can better understand himself and in turn, is able to improve his life more.
• Virgilio Enriquez was born in the Province of Bulacan.
• Virgilio Enriquez is the Father of Filipino Psychology.
• Virgilio Enriquez initiated into Psychology in 1963 when he started teaching at the University of the Philippines (UP).
• Virgilio Enriquez pursued his masters in the US in 1966.
• Virgilio Enriquez obtained his Ph.D in Social Psychology from Northwestern University, USA.
• Virgilio Enriquez and Dr. Alfredo V. Lagmay embarked on research into historical and cultural roots of Philippine Psychology.
• Crossing paths with a black cat is a bad omen is a superstition.
• Sweeping the floor at night will bring you bad luck is a superstition.
• Saying “tao, tao po” while knocking at someone’s door is more than just asking if there’s someone in the house is a superstition.
• If you’re coming from a wake, take a detour if you must, just DON’T go home immediately.
• Utang na Loob translates to Debt of gratitude and reciprocity, indicating that one is indebted to another for life and should "give back".
• Bringing home food served at a wake or a funeral will bring bad luck is a superstition.
• When a woman sings while cooking, she will end up a spinster is a superstition.
• When three people pose for a picture, the one at the center will be the first to die is a superstition.
• Oro, Plata, Mata is a superstition.
• When someone sees you and you appear to be headless, it means you’re about to die is a superstition.
• Fitting your wedding dress prior to your wedding day will cost you your life is a superstition.
• In 1975, Virgilio Enriquez chaired the Unang Pambansang Kumperensya sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino (First National Conference in Filipino Psychology).
• Virgilio Enriquez authored several publications in indigenous psychology, Filipino personality, psychology of language and politics, philosophy and values, cross-cultural psychology and pilipinolohiya.
• Virgilio Enriquez received numerous awards, recognitions, and grants both in the Philippines and internationally.
• Worldview is an organizing framework of culture, according to assumption #7.
• Indigenous psychologies have developed in various ways, including limits of western psychology providing answers to local societal issues, nationalist and post-colonial movements, and the search for cultural uniqueness.
• In China, psychological analysis of ancient religious texts is a common practice.
• Psychology of indigenous people in Australia and New Zealand involves studying the cultures of the natives and analyzing ancient religious texts.
• The sikolohiyang Pilipino course should also account for the diversity of the Filipino experience, emphasizing that Filipinos may differ as a function of being immersed in different cultural contexts such as social class, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and ideology.
• Psychology in the Philippines has not fully indigenized, a process known as indigenization.
• Indigenization is the process of transforming psychology to reflect local culture.
• In Iran, analysis of language and semantic meaning is a method of understanding the culture.
• Psychology is indigenous if it is developed from within the culture, reflects local behaviors, can understand behaviors using a local frame of reference, and produces knowledge that is meaningful and relevant to the culture.
• In the Philippines, the search for cultural uniqueness has led to the concept of "angat ka sa iba o unique ka sa iba" and behavior that is unique to the Philippines.
• Consequences of copycat psychology include marginalization or exclusion of local experiences, distortion in the understanding of local experience, alienation, and kulelat syndrome.
• Indigenization from within involves integrating local knowledge systems into the formal psychological knowledge base.
• Filipino Psychology is defined as the psychology rooted on the experience, ideas, and cultural orientation of the Filipinos.
• Filipino Psychology is a scientific study of ethnicity, society and culture of people and the application to psychological practice of indigenous knowledge rooted in the people’s ethnic heritage and consciousness.
• Psychology is defined as the study of emotions (kalooban), experienced knowledge (kamalayan), awareness of one’s surroundings (ulirat), information and understanding (isip), habits and behavior (diwa).
• Sikolohiyang Pilipino is a psychology rooted on the experience, ideas, and cultural orientation of the Filipinos.