Maslow's hierarchy of needs proposes that people are motivated to fulfill basic needs before moving on to other needs. It identifies physiological needs like food and shelter as basic needs. Once these are met, people seek security and belongingness through relationships and social interactions. Further up are esteem needs like achievement and respect from others. At the top is self-actualization, defined as fulfilling one's potential and striving to become the best version of oneself. Maslow suggested that lower level needs must be satisfied before higher level needs can be addressed.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs proposes that people are motivated to fulfill basic needs before moving on to other needs. It identifies physiological needs like food and shelter as basic needs. Once these are met, people seek security and belongingness through relationships and social interactions. Further up are esteem needs like achievement and respect from others. At the top is self-actualization, defined as fulfilling one's potential and striving to become the best version of oneself. Maslow suggested that lower level needs must be satisfied before higher level needs can be addressed.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs proposes that people are motivated to fulfill basic needs before moving on to other needs. It identifies physiological needs like food and shelter as basic needs. Once these are met, people seek security and belongingness through relationships and social interactions. Further up are esteem needs like achievement and respect from others. At the top is self-actualization, defined as fulfilling one's potential and striving to become the best version of oneself. Maslow suggested that lower level needs must be satisfied before higher level needs can be addressed.
College, New School for Social Research, Columbia University
10th most cited (popular) psychologist of the 20th
century (A Review of General Psychology Survey)
Proposed the theory called Maslow's hierarchy of
needs Maslow's hierarchy of needs Only when people have satisfied elemental needs do they strive to meet higher needs “… to understand our human needs a little bit better can put us all on the expressway to happiness and holiness.”
- Father Joseph A. Galdon
Physiological/ Biological/ Survival - Physical needs such as food, rest, physical safety (home), medication Security - We have to live in a predictable and orderly world. Example of security problems: - Broken families (divorce or separation of parents) - Aiming for high grades for popularity - Betrayal and infedility from relationship partner Love and Belonging Needs - We have to belong to someone and someone else has to belong to us. - “No man’s an island.” Esteem Needs - Assurance that we are good at something and on what we do. And that we have a potential to invest into something to become better. Maintenance needs must be fairly well satisfied before several growth needs can motivate human behavior. Maslow's hierarchy of needs Knowledge and Understanding - “ The need to know and understand one’s world is often listen as an intrinsic (built-in) need. Students who are ‘turned on’ by discovering new knowledge do not require external payoffs to keep them learning. Elaborate systems of discovery learning and problem- solving are based on this need to explore.” Aesthetic Needs - Desire for order and beauty. Whenever people discover or create, they seem stimulated to pursue those activities further. Example: - Art exhibits, concerts, displays, house redecorating Self- actualization - Striving to become what their potential is.
“Where there is no vision, the people perish”
-Proverbs 29: 18
Example: Pursuing things or activities as hobbies because you love doing them, and not as things to do.