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Where Philippine Colonial Education fostered the belief

that scientific psychology in the country. (95% of literature came from Western country)

Under graduate psychology courses were taught in

College of Education, University of the Philippinesusing textbook and English as the medium Language of Instruction.

Documentary proof between H ispanic and Indigenous.

During the time of Governor-General Francis BurtonH arrisons policy of Attraction, only upper-middleclass can afford and can be accommodated by theUniversity.



A gustin A lonzo found concrete manifestation of A merican Education together with Colonial culturethrough Harrisons policy of Filipinization.

Alonzos M.A. proceeded to University of Chicagoto take PhD. In Experimental Psychology.

A lonzo came through handling of rats in maze toprovide Manual Guide to his laboratory

A nimals.

A lonzos role in Early American Colonial Psychology in Philippines passed unnoticed when he died in 1981.



1921 the end of H arrisons era of Filipinization but thebeginning of American-oriented graduate psychology

in the Philippines.

Filipino Sikolohiya was derived from Spanish term Psicologia was part of laymans term even if the

spelling was standardized.



Spanish Rational Psychology

Metaphysical discipline that attempted to determine thenature of the human soul by a priori (knowledge that isindependent of all particular experiences) reasoning.

Kant identifies rational psychology as a bogus

doctrine of the soul and self-knowledge which arises from the common and natural reason of men,rational psychologists attempt to extend knowledgebeyond possible experience, and thus employed rational

psychology is entirely up of paralisisms.



American Behavioral Psychology

School of psychology which seeks to explain animal and

human behavior entirely in terms of observable andmeasurable responses to environmental stimuli.

Behaviorism was introduced (1913) by the A mericanpsychologist J ohn B. Watson, who insisted thatbehavior is a physiological reaction to environmentalstimuli.

The conditioned-reflex experiments of the Russian

physiologist Ivan Pavlov and the A mericanpsychologist Edward Thorndike were central to thedevelopment of behaviorism. The A mericanbehaviorist B. F. Skinner contended that all but afew emotions were conditioned by habit, and could

be learned or unlearned.



Del Pilar are rich Sources of psychological theories andinsights but they were mainly propagandist and not psychologist.

UST change its admission policy to accommodateFilipinos.

Emilio Aguinaldo A cknowledge Psicologos del verbo Tagalog in his inaugural speech in 1899.

William Mckinley sends soldiers to Philippine tocivilize and Christianize the islanders.



English Language and the American System of Education proved to be the most efficient instrumentsfor the noble purpose.

William H oward Taft impose English as the mediumof Instructions in the Philippines, it was the simplestmaster stroke to transfer the burden of developing

psychology as a discipline from the hand of Spanishspeaking Friars to the shoulders of Native A mericanspeaking English.

In the 20s A merican teachers were replaced by the new

breed of Filipino teachers.

In the 60s, Instructors were armed with a copy of American textbook and background of English-

Literature, Education and Laws.



Sinforoso Padilla attempt the 1st LocalPsychological Test development also authored thePhilippine Mental Ability Tests.

1926, Manuel Carreon a young and Productivecolleague of Padilla took an appropriate and relevantPsychological testing.

1926 Carreon published his PhD dissertation inNew York entitle Philippine studies in Mental Measurement.

Carreons writing considered was all valid but hecommitted mistake of mastering English

Language.



Copies of Malaya, Ilang-Ilang , and Sinag-Talasold in public for five centavo.

Liwayway strike American Colonial Administrators, World War, J apaneseOccupation etc. With this matter his work were notclaimed on Psychological Testing but ratherlanded on Filipiniana Section.

Carreons Effort rewarded at the NorthwestUniversity Library but castigating his poor Mastery of the Language.

Meanwhile, Pagtatawas projective techniques reserved astopic for Clinical psychologist and Anthropologist forFuture.

Carreon Misluck with H arrisons successor in the person

of Major-General Leonard Wood who believed that Filipinos



Carreon Misluck with H arrisons successor in theperson of Major-General Leonard Wood whobelieved that Filipinos needed more time and efforts for worth of A mericas trust.

Educationalist and Guidance Counselors continueadministering Psychological Tests which hardlyunderstood by the test-takers and even eager administrators, for this reason Carreons Message fit

Philippine Condition, Later known as change applesto papayas approach to improve test validity.



Isidro Panlasigui; A merican-trained Filipino Psychologist

In 1928 he completed PhD in Educational Psychology in Iowa through the support of

A mericans. Panlasigui shows admiration for mother A merican as

he wrote the Filipino Psychology and as he arguesfor the colonial Language.

H .G. Wells quoted Panlasigui was quick to remindus that: The Language of the conquered may beadopted by the conqueror or vice-versa. Heconsidered it as strength to boost our dignity inorder to be classified with the great natives of

A merica and Europe.



Manuel L. Quezon contrast what IsidroPanlasigui believed throughout of intellectual and emotionally Americanized the FilipinoPsychologists. Quezon denoted: I would rather have a government run like hell by theFilipinos than a government like run heaven

by Americans.

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