Prof.

Angela Suzanne La Valle Roldan, RPm

College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology / Social Science Department
 ✓ Good and bad ✓ Being good
✓ Proper behavior ✓ Manners
✓ Ethical and unethical ways ✓ Attitude / character
✓ Moral behavior ✓ Rules of behavior based on
✓ Moral values ideas.
✓ Act well
✓ Patience
✓ Right or wrong
✓ Ethical person
✓ How to be better ✓ Standards

✓ Decision making
 I cannot teach
anybody anything! I
can only make
them think! –
Socrates.
Ethics

• Greek “Ethos” = “characteristic way of acting”, “habit”, or

“custom”
• Latin “mos” “mores” = moral or morality
• Ethics studies the characteristics behavior of a man as
endowed with reason and freewill.
• “a science of the morality of human acts.”
 1. What? 4. Where?
2. Who? 5. Why?
3. When? 6. How?
Ethics is where,
circumstances matters!
 • Human acts = done intentionally
and freely

• Acts of man = instinctive

(physiological and psychological
movements); factors affecting
human acts.
Human Acts vs Acts of Man
Ethics

o A study of moral being one that is rationally able to

distinguish between right and wrong.

o Examines how man is accountable for his actions

and its consequences.

o Proposes how man ought to live his life-

meaningfully.
Ethical
Approaches
Atheistic Approach

❑Man is free and must

❑Matter is the only reality. exercise his freedom to
promote welfare of society
❑Man is matter and does
not have spiritual soul.
❑There is no life after death

❑Man is accountable only to

the state.
 Theistic Approach

• God is Supreme Creator and • Man has an immortal

Lawgiver soul

• Man is free and must use his • Man is accountable for

freedom to promote his his actions, both good
personal interest along with and evil
that of others
 Special ethics is the application
of the principles of general
General ethics discusses the
ethics to problems and issues
principles of morality. The
confronted by a person in
norms with which the moral
account of his circumstances in
significance of human acts is
life.
determined.

General & Special Ethics

RECIPROCITY “When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel Bad.” –
Abraham Lincoln

“Ethics has a practical “Our best moments are not

dimension…reciprocity. when we made a lot of
” – Jovito R. Salonga money, but when something
we did meant a lot good to
others.” – J. Salonga
“Do unto others what
you want others do
unto you.”
 GRADING SYSTEM
Assignment 10% MG 40%
+ +
Recitation 25% FG 60%
+ =

Quizzes 25% FINAL RATING (FR)

+
Major Examination (ME) 40%
=
Midterm / Final Grade
ELIGIBILITIES
❑ Career Service Examination *Professional
level 2012
❑ Far Eastern University Bachelor of Science
in Psychology *Cum Laude 2013
❑ Licensed Psychometrician (RPm) *Pioneer
batch 2014
❑ Psychological Association of the
Philippines *Affiliate 2014-present
❑ Psychological Systems Innovation (Psi)
*Accredited Psychometrician 2016-2019
❑ Top Rank Review Academy
(Psychometrician Review) *National
Lecturer 2016-present
❑ Polytechnic University of the Philippines
Master in Psychology with specialization in
Clinical Psychology (MPsy)
Taguig City University
Outstanding Faculty *2015 - present

Loyalty Award Recipient 2018

Psychology OJT Coordinator AY 2017-18

TCU Psychometrician In-House Review Coordinator 2017

Subjects handled:
• Psychology Department: Psychological Assessment, Psychology of
Learning, Abnormal Psychology, Group Dynamics, Clinical
Psychology, Guidance and Counseling, Mental Hygiene
• Social Science Department: General Psychology, Sociology with
Family Planning, Values and Professional Ethics, Personnel
Management w/ Group Dynamics, Understanding the Self
Email: angelasuzanneroldan@gmail.com
Twitter/Instagram: @alegna_ennazus