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Name: Marvin R. Gaspar Course and Section: BS Psychology 1-1 Activity 1

This document contains an activity completed by Marvin R. Gaspar for his BS Psychology course. The activity includes a series of true/false questions testing knowledge of history concepts, and an essay question about the role of history in understanding Philippine society, culture, and identity. The essay response argues that studying history is necessary to understand the past and avoid repeating mistakes, and identifies specific ways history shapes a society's origin, culture, and development. The document also includes rubrics for scoring the true/false questions and essay response.

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Name: Marvin R. Gaspar Course and Section: BS Psychology 1-1 Activity 1

This document contains an activity completed by Marvin R. Gaspar for his BS Psychology course. The activity includes a series of true/false questions testing knowledge of history concepts, and an essay question about the role of history in understanding Philippine society, culture, and identity. The essay response argues that studying history is necessary to understand the past and avoid repeating mistakes, and identifies specific ways history shapes a society's origin, culture, and development. The document also includes rubrics for scoring the true/false questions and essay response.

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Name: Marvin R.

Gaspar
Course and Section: BS Psychology 1-1

Activity 1

True or False. Write T if the statement is correct and F if it is not.


_____T1. An examination of the past can tell us a great deal about how we came to be who we
are.
_____F2. History means “the present of mankind”.
___T_3. History includes people’s beliefs, desires and practices.
__F___4. The English word history is derived from the Latin word istoia.
_____T5. Different and new perspectives will enable us to analyze critically the present contexts
of society and beings.
_____6. Historicity is the authentication of characters in history, as opposed to legend or myth.
_____7. Herstory is the writing of history and the understanding of how the interpretations of
historians.
___F__8. The historians are the only source of history.
___T_9. The subject of historiography is history itself.
___F_10. History has no use for the present, thus, the saying “past is past” is true.

Activity 2

Essay. Respond to the given question comprehensively.


What role does history take in the study of Philippine society, culture and identity?

Our history shaped our society, culture and identity. In order to understand our current
outlook we need to look back on what happened to our ancestors.

History helps us know who we are, or in this case, why Philippine society, culture, and
identity are what they’ve become. History gives us a preview of how everything worked in the
past like culture, politics, beliefs, governments. It provides an understanding of the past which
ultimately gives a better grasp in understanding the present. It helps us be aware of change and
what we need to continue to be doing and why, what we shouldn’t repeat, and what we need to
change for the future, which in return, will be history itself as well.

Studying history is necessary in order to understand our past and correct our mistakes for
the future. In addition, the following are some of the roles in which history has in learning and
studying our own society, culture and identity. First, by learning our history we would know our
origin. This would give us an understanding of our own identity. Secondly, history gives us the
key to our culture. In that way, we would know how to preserve it. In addition, history also is the
foundation of our society. By having our own understanding on the things that happened in the
past, we would know what to do in case the same thing happened in the future. Lastly, History
also explains our own society and how we struggled to have our own identity.
Scoring Rubrics for Essay

Category Exemplary Superior Satisfactory Unsatisfactory


Knowledge/ Demonstrates Demonstrate Demonstrate Demonstrates
Comprehensio thorough s s limited
n 25% understanding considerable understandin understanding
of topic. understandin g of topic
g of the topic
of the topic.
Content Response Response Response Response is
25% indicates depth indicates lacks focus unclear, illogical
& complexity of simplistic or or or incoherent.
thought in answering repetitive demonstrates
the essay. thoughts in confused or
answering conflicting
the essay thinking.
question.
Quality of Response was Response Response Response had no
Writing written in an was written had a little style or voice.
25% extraordinary style in an style or voice
& voice. interesting
style.
Gives some Gives no new
Very information & Somewhat new information &
well organized. informative information very poorly
& organized. but poorly organized.
organized.
Grammar, Almost no spelling, Few spelling A number of So many
Punctuation & punctuation or & spelling, spelling,
Spelling grammatical errors. punctuation punctuation punctuation &
25% errors, minor or grammatical
grammatical grammatical errors that it
errors. errors. interferes with
the meaning.
Sub Totals
100%
Over-all-
Score 100%
Evaluation:

Think about or reflect on your past. Has your past influenced you in a way or another?
How does your past shape your identity and behavior?

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Consider how hard habits are to
break. Change can and does occur. All of us will have life experiences that shake us and change
us. Some may be major. Some may be minor—-but through all this our essence generally
remains unchanged. Personally, I agree that my past influenced what I am today.

For instance, before one of my loved ones passed away, I always believed that time spent
with your loved ones could be pushed back. I always believed that I would have time later on to
spend time with them or focus on them. However, after that incident, I realized how important
my life outside of school is and should be. Before this, I thought only my school/academic life
mattered and would spent most of my attention/focus on it. After I realized this, I noticed how
much I was missing out on. I didn’t have central hobbies, a family member that supports me
outside of school, etc. I’ve been working on it for the past few months, so it’s gotten a lot better.
I’ve strengthened relationships, reflected on my past self, and also learned more about myself
than I ever knew before. Now, I also make time for myself and loved ones instead of just school/
extracurricular.

My past did change the way I think of the things surrounding me including my mindset
but it didn’t last long since I don’t want it to change me completely, maybe I just picked up some
lessons. For me my past has influenced me not to make the same mistakes again and made me
think differently to things that I did wrong, I somehow think that past mistakes, regrets and bad
behaviors makes us a greater person, it might take longer for some but it’s also a choice to
change. My past can affect my behavior depends on me if I will let my past affect myself or act
like nothing happened. Either way it still depends on how I will handle things.

Scoring Rubric for Reflection Paper


Category Exemplary Superior Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
Depth 25% Response Response Response Response
demonstrates an in- demonstrates a demonstrates a demonstrates a lack
depth reflection on general reflection minimal reflection of reflection on the
the concepts. on the concepts. on the concepts. concepts/
Viewpoints and Viewpoints and Viewpoints and Viewpoints and
interpretations are interpretations are interpretations are interpretations are
insightful and well supported. unsupported or missing,
supported. supported with inappropriate and/or
flawed arguments. unsupported.
Structure 25% Writing is clear, Writing is mostly Writing is unclear Writing is unclear
concise, and well clear, concise, and and/or disorganized. and disorganized.
organized with well organized with Thoughts are not Thoughts ramble
excellent sentence good expressed in a and make little
and paragraph sentence/paragraph logical manner. sense.
construction. construction.

Thoughts are fully Thoughts are


expressed in expressed in a
coherent and logical coherent and logical
manner. manner.
Quality of Writing Response was Response was Response had a Response had no
25% written in an written in an little style or voice. style or voice.
extraordinary style interesting style.
and voice.
Gives some new
Very Informative Somewhat information but Gives no new
and well organized. informative and poorly organized. information and
organized. very poorly
organized.
Grammar, Almost no spelling, Few spelling and A number of So many spelling,
Punctuation and punctuation or punctuations errors spelling, punctuation and
Spelling 25% grammatical errors. and minor punctuation or grammatical errors
grammatical errors. grammatical errors. that interferes with
the meaning.
Sub Totals
100%
Over-all-Score
100%

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