• 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 Philippines
using textbook and English as the medium Language of
Instruction.

• Documentary proof between Hispanic and Indigenous.

• During the time of Governor-General Francis Burton

Harrison’s policy of Attraction, only upper-middle
class can afford and can be accommodated by the
University.
• Agustin Alonzo found concrete manifestation of
American Education together with Colonial culture
through Harrison’s policy of Filipinization.

 Alonzo’s M.A. proceeded to University of Chicago

to take PhD. In Experimental Psychology.

 Alonzo came through handling of rats in maze to

provide “Manual Guide” to his laboratory
Animals.

 Alonzo’s role in Early American Colonial

Psychology in Philippines passed unnoticed
when he died in 1981.
• 1921 the end of Harrison’s era of Filipinization but the
beginning of American-oriented graduate psychology
in the Philippines.

• Filipino Sikolohiya was derived from Spanish term

“Psicologia” was part of layman’s term even if the
spelling was standardized.
Spanish Rational Psychology

 Metaphysical discipline that attempted to determine the

nature of the human soul by a priori (knowledge that is
independent 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 knowledge
beyond 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 and
measurable responses to environmental stimuli.

 Behaviorism was introduced (1913) by the American

psychologist John B. Watson, who insisted that
behavior is a physiological reaction to environmental
stimuli.

 The conditioned-reflex experiments of the Russian

physiologist Ivan Pavlov and the American
psychologist Edward Thorndike were central to the
development of behaviorism. The American
behaviorist B. F. Skinner contended that all but a
few emotions were conditioned by habit, and could
be learned or unlearned.
 Del Pilar are rich Sources of psychological theories and
insights but they were mainly propagandist and not
psychologist.

 UST change its admission policy to accommodate

Filipinos.

 Emilio Aguinaldo Acknowledge “Psicologos del

verbo” Tagalog in his inaugural speech in 1899.

 William Mckinley sends soldiers to Philippine to

civilize and Christianize the islanders.
 English Language and the American System of
Education proved to be the most efficient instruments
for the noble purpose.

 William Howard Taft impose English as the medium

of Instructions in the Philippines, it was the simplest
master stroke to transfer the burden of developing
psychology as a discipline from the hand of Spanish
speaking Friars to the shoulders of Native American
speaking English.

 In the 20’s American teachers were replaced by the new

breed of Filipino teachers.

 In the 60’s, Instructors were armed with a copy of

American textbook and background of English-
Literature, Education and Laws.
 Sinforoso Padilla attempt the 1st Local
Psychological Test development also authored the
Philippine Mental Ability Tests.

 1926, Manuel Carreon a young and Productive

colleague of Padilla took an appropriate and relevant
Psychological testing.

 1926 Carreon published his PhD dissertation in

New York entitle “Philippine studies in Mental
Measurement.”
 Carreon’s writing considered was all valid but he
committed mistake of mastering English
Language.
  Copies of Malaya, Ilang-Ilang, and Sinag-Tala
sold in public for five centavo.
 Liwayway strike American Colonial
Administrators, World War, Japanese
Occupation etc. With this matter his work were not
claimed on Psychological Testing but rather
landed on Filipiniana Section.
 Carreon’s Effort rewarded at the Northwest
University Library but castigating his poor
Mastery of the Language.

 Meanwhile, “Pagtatawas” projective techniques reserved as a

topic for Clinical psychologist and Anthropologist for
Future.

 Carreon Misluck with Harrison’s successor in the person

of Major-General Leonard Wood who believed that Filipinos
 Carreon Misluck with Harrison’s successor in the
person of Major-General Leonard Wood who
believed that Filipinos needed more time and efforts for
worth of America’s trust.

 Educationalist and Guidance Counselors continue

administering Psychological Tests which hardly
understood by the test-takers and even eager
administrators, for this reason Carreon’s Message fit
Philippine Condition, Later known as “change apples
to papayas approach” to improve test validity.
 Isidro Panlasigui; American-trained Filipino Psychologist

 In 1928 he completed PhD in Educational

Psychology in Iowa through the support of
Americans.
 Panlasigui shows admiration for mother American as
he wrote the Filipino Psychology and as he argues
for the colonial Language.
 H.G. Wells quoted Panlasigui was quick to remind
us that: “The Language of the conquered may be
adopted by the conqueror or vice-versa”. He
considered it as strength to boost our dignity in
order to be classified with the great natives of
America and Europe.
 Manuel L. Quezon contrast what Isidro
Panlasigui believed throughout of intellectual
and emotionally Americanized the Filipino
Psychologists. Quezon denoted: “I would
rather have a government run like hell by the
Filipinos than a government like run heaven
by Americans.”