Maslows Hierarchy

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Maslows Hierarchy

• Ms. Kissel

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Abraham Maslow

• Born April 1, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York
• First of seven children
• Jewish immigrants from Russia
• Education - University of Wisconsin
• BA in 1930
• MA in 1931
• PhD in 1934
• Teaching full time at Brooklyn College

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Abraham Maslow

• Chair of the psychology department at Brandeis
  from 1951 to 1969
• Here he began his crusade for a humanistic
  psychology
• Died of a heart attack after years of ill health
  June 8 1970

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Maslows Theory

• Hierarchy of Needs

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Being Needs
Self-Actualization
Deficit Needs
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1. Physiological Needs

• Oxygen
• Water
• Protein
• Salt
• Sugar
• Vitamins

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2. Safety and Security Needs

• Safe Circumstances
• Safe Neighborhood
• Stability
• Job Security
• Protection
• Nest Egg
• Retirement Plan
• Life Insurance

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3. Love and Belonging Needs

• Friends
• Sweetheart
• Marriage
• Children
• Affectionate Relationships
• Sense of Community
• Fraternity, Bowling League, Church/Synagogue

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4. Esteem Needs

• Lower One
• Respect for others
• Status
• Fame
• Glory
• Higher One
• Self Respect
• Confidence
• Competence
• Achievement
• Freedom

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Problems in Development

• You tend to focus on that need in your life
• Grandparents / depression
• Parents divorce
• Period of extreme insecurity
• Hunger
• Job loss

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Self-Actualization

• Be all you can be
• Becoming the most complete, the fullest, you

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Self-Actualization Examples

• Abraham Lincoln
• Thomas Jefferson
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Albert Einstein

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Self-Actualization Characteristics

• Reality Centered
• Dishonest from Genuine
• Problem Centered
• Solutions to be discovered
• Ends did not justify means
• The journey was important

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Self-Actualization Relations

• Comfortable being alone
• Independent of culture and environment
• Not susceptible to social pressure
• Open to ethnic and individual variety
• Had social interest, compassion of humanity
• Enjoyed intimate personal relations with a few vs
  shallow relation with many
• Sense of Humor

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Self-Actualization Relations

• Acceptance of self and others
• Enjoyed spontaneity and simplicity
• Preferred being themselves
• Able to view the ordinary with wonder
• Creative, inventive, original
• More peak experiences

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Summary
Self-Actualization