fpsy

-emerged and grew as part of the nationalist indigenous movement in the Philippines that was formalized in 1975.

-defined as the psychology rooted on the experience, ideas and cultural orientation of the Filipinos

-considered as Father of Sikolohiyang Filipino.

-the scientific study of human behavior or mind that is native, that is designed for its people and that is not transported from other regions.

-generally advocates examining knowledge, skills and beliefs people have about themselves and studying them in their natural context.

-concerned with the systematic study of behavior and experience as it occurs in different cultures

-is influenced by culture or results in changes in existing cultures.

-the study of similarities and differences in individual psychological functioning in various cultural and ethnocultural groups.

- a discipline that studies the psychology and behavior of the people of a particular community. The principal objects are tribes, peoples and nations, as well as specific population groups that are ethnically related, such as groups of immigrants.

-         is the study of how cultures reflect and shape the psychological processes of their members. The main tenet of cultural psychology is that mind and culture are inseparable and mutually constitutive, meaning that people are shaped by their culture and their culture is also shaped by them.

- The aim of the new discipline was to discover the ‘laws’ that governed the historical development of nations and thus to establish a ‘social science’.

- One of the main aims of the new discipline was to study the relationship between the individual and the community

- This purported to analyze the psychology of nations

- Involves the transfer of western psychological methods, concepts and theories and modify it to fit local culture.

- Transporting psychological theories, concept and methods and modifying them to fit to local cultural context.

- Involves making something foreign(banyaga) more meaningful to the local context; process of modifying or contextualizing that which is imported to fit the culture well and make it appear as if it were indigenous.

- Involves the development of methods, concepts and theories within the Philippines.

- Culture as source of knowledge to come up with cross-cultural knowledge.

- Means looking for the indigenous psychology from within the culture itself and not just clothing a foreign body with a local dress.

- Also called cultural revalidation

- Theories, concept and methods are developed internally and indigenous information is considered to be primary source of knowledge.

- Uses the culture as a source in searching for concepts and methods believed to be more significant to the Filipino and more appropriate in explaining Filipino behavior and experiences.

development of indigenous concepts and theoretical frameworks.