Self Chap 2

• Joy and Humor


  This is demonstrated when Filipinos become cheerful and fun-loving, especially during fiestas and any other social gatherings.
• Ningas cogon


  This trait starts with enthusiasm but sooner or later that enthusiasm just dies down
• This   is demonstrated by Filipinos to carry on and endure even through harsh economic and social circumstances

  Ability to survive
• Kanya-kanya syndrome


  This trait emphasizes personal and in-group interests, which are insensitive to the common good
• Hardwork and industry 


  This trait is demonstrated in our willingness to take risks and work in other countries
• PAKIKIPAGKAPWA-TAO 


  It is a Filipino trait that is manifested in the practice of Bayanihan or mutual assistance. 
• Faith and Religiosity 


  This trait is actually a positive side to "bahala na" mindset, which serves as a 'kickstarter" or a "pamapalakas loob" to move someone into action. 
• Colonial Mentality

  This trait is connected to our general feelings of inferiority, where we think foreigners are superior. 
• Family CENTEREDNESS 


  Family is valued above anything and everyone else because the family is the source of strength
• Extreme PERSONALISM 


  This involves personal contacts, which make requests become difficult to turn down and may lead to the prevalence of graft and corruption in the country. 
• Francis Hutcheson - "The perception of beauty does depend on the external sense of sight; however, the internal sense of beauty operates as an internal or reflex sense. The same is the case with hearing hearing music does not necessarily give the perception of harmony as it is distinct from the hearing" (Inquiry L. L. X). 
• David Hume - "Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. One person may even perceive deformity, where another is sensible of beauty, and every individual ought to acquieste in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others"
• The halo effect (also known as the physical attractiveness stereotype and the "what is beautiful is good" principle) refers to the tendency of people to  rate attractive individuals more favorably for their personality traits or characteristics  as compared to those who are less attractive.
• A cognitive bias is an error in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or any mental process that is often a result of holding on to one's preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information. 
• Immanuel Kant - "The judgment of taste is therefore not a judgment of cognition, and is consequently not logical but aesthetical, by which we understand that whose determining ground can be no other than subjective"
• If you have a positive body image, you probably like and accept yourself the way you  are, even if you do not fit the popular notion of "beautiful" or "handsome." 
• Body image is how you view your physical body, whether you feel you are attractive, and how you feel some other people like your looks. 
• Self-esteem is about how you value yourself and how you feel others value you. Self-esteem is important because it can affect your mental health as well as how you behave. 
• The term self-esteem was coined by William James in 1800. James presented self-esteem as the number of successes a person achieves in the domains of life 
• Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) It is responsible for ovulation in females. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Durham, N.C., discovered that sexual activity was more frequent during a woman's fertile time. 
• Emotions and feelings (which are important for sexual behavior) are believed to originate in the limbic system. 
• Sexual thoughts and fantasies are theorized to lie in the cerebral cortex, the same area used for thinking and reasoning. 
• Luteinizing hormone (LH) The LH is crucial in regulating the testes in men and ovaries in women. In men, the LH stimulates the testes to produce testosterone. In males, testosterone appears to be a major contributing factor to sexual motivation. 
• Estrogen and progesterone

  typically regulate motivation to engage in sexual behavior for females, with estrogen increasing motivation and progesterone decreasing it. 
• Vasopressin Vasopressin is involved in the male arousal phase. The increase of vasopressin during erectile response is believed to be directly associated with increased motivation to engage in sexual behavior. 
• The hymen is a membrane that surrounds or partially covers the external vaginal opening. 
• Vaginal introitus is the opening that leads to the vaginal canal. 
• The labia majora are fleshy lips around the vagina. These are larger outer folds of the vulva. The labia minora also known as the inner labia, inner lips, vaginal lips or nymphae are two flaps of skin on either side of the human vaginal opening in the vulva situated between the labia majora.