Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy Of Innate Needs

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is used to analyze motivation of consumers, which are composed of 5 five stages. From the lowest level to the highest one respectively are physiological, safety, belongingness, ego needs, and self-actualization. (Solomon and Barmossy et al., 2006)

Throughout life, one’s personality is a very important aspect of that individual’s wellbeing. Such characteristics are not only used by others in attempts to understand their peers, but also determine one’s own satisfaction and view of themselves. People are always attempting to change who they are for the better, in efforts to live a more satisfying and self-fulfilling life through achieving higher personal needs. With that said, when studying the psychological basis behind one’s development and change in personality, one specific theory and stance seems to explain this phenomenon of bettering one’s self; that of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

When this need is satisfied, the next level is esteem needs. Esteem needs include the need for a person to gain self-esteem, achievement, and independence. The next level on the hierarchy of needs is the need for self-actualization. This level involves the individual’s need to live up to their potential. The highest level on Maslow’s hierarchy is self-transcendence.

Psychologist Abraham Maslow’s “Hierarchy of Needs” illustrates the biological, social, and personal necessities each person must satisfy to become a “fully functioning person”, known as reaching Self-actualization (Olson, 2013). The “Hierarchy of Needs” is pyramid of five steps can be seen as a ladder: The Physiological, Safety, Love/Belonging, and Esteem are all “Deficiency needs” or D-needs, must be climbed before you can reach the peak (McLeod, 2016). Once an individual conquers each rung of the ladder, they can attempt to satisfy their “Being needs” or B-needs, solely Self-actualization. Maslow’s specified B-values that a self-actualized person strives for and accomplishes in daily life.

When observing the field of psychology, among the vast expanse of subfields, the one that caught my eye the most was Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. By labeling the five most essential parts of a human’s life, they are defined and put in order from things most needed to things that come after those basic needs are met.

Maslow’s approach to psychology differed from other psychologist in his time. One of the things that Maslow developed was the Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The Hierarchy of Needs consist of five steps, where self-actualization is at the very top. The bottom, or the first step is physiological needs, which are composed of essential necessities that are required for human survival. Example of these specifications include water, air, and food. Clothing and shelter are also elements of the first step in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The second level on the hierarchy is composed of safety needs, these needs consist of personal security, financial security, and health and well-being. The third level of needs is love and belonging, which derives from friendships, intimacy, and family. The fourth level is esteem; inferring that all humans must feel self-respected to fulfill this need. The fifth and final level on the

Maslow’s mission in life was to understand people better. In his quest, he came up with many different theories to explain how and why humans behave the way they do. Motivation was at the center of most all his theories. “Maslow 's hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology comprising a five tier model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid.” (McLeod, 2016) I will be exploring my own needs according to Maslow’s Original 5 stage Pyramid.

Maslow’s self-actualization was developed from his hierarchy of needs. In the hierarchy of needs there are seven stages. Maslow did not feel that self-actualization determined one's life; rather, he felt that it gave the individual a desire, or motivation to achieve budding ambition (Gleitman and Reisberg). As a person moves up Maslow's hierarchy of needs, eventually they may reach the summit self-actualization (Gleitman and Reisberg). The first stage is physiological needs, which are where an individual will find food and water; also they will be able to use basic functions such as sleeping and breathing.

To become a self-actualized person, people must first meet certain needs. Abraham Maslow, founder of humanistic psychology had focused on the positive sides of mental health ( WGBH,” People and Discoveries Abraham Maslow”). In his studies and interests dealing with human potential, Maslow had created a pyramid known as the Hierarchy of Needs. This pyramid consisted of five levels: physiological needs, safety needs, belonging needs, esteem needs, and self- actualization needs.

When one thinks of what families do for each other, they will most likely think of care. More specifically they think of the care that a parent has for their child. Parents have to meet certain “needs” for the child in order for the its healthy survival. Children must be fed and clothed. Parents must also watch over the safety of and be the friends of the children. Cheering on in good times and making their child the best it can be are also responsibilities of parents. The family metaphor is used when describing the Human Relations method of management. In this the management of a company is seen as the parents and the employees are seen as the children. Employees, as seen as the

Look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs you see that the physiological things are on the bottom. This includes things like food, water, breathing, sleep, and shelter. Things people can not live without. If you have all of those things then you can live, you may not be able to live an exciting life if that is all you have, but you get to live. Even the people that have a substantial amount of everything on every level of the pyramid still want something. I know that I have all the necessities that I need to live, but there are still things I want. When I think about what I want compared to what people in Zambia want, there are drastic differences. Most of us live such a privileged life we want things like a new car or a new phone, but people in Zambia? They want things like a nourishing meal or clean, fresh water. Our style of life makes malnutrition or lack of water something that is almost unimaginable.

According to the Greenwood Dictionary of Education (2011), Abraham Maslow, an American psychologist, believed that everyone has a need for self-actualization, to develop an individual’s full potential by maximizing his/her talents and abilities. Maslow proposed that human needs are categorized in a hierarchy into the following requirements (from basic to complex and/or advanced needs): physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and then self-actualization (Maslow, 2006). The hierarchy is often projected as a pyramid figure, with basic needs at the bottom, and more complex needs at the top. According to Atkins (2001), people must achieve lower needs before they attempt to fulfill higher and more advanced ones (p. 1396).

In 1943, psychologist Abraham Maslow published his famous work “Need Hierarchy” often displayed as a pyramid. Maslow listed the lowest levels of the pyramid as the most basic needs, while the more complex needs are located at the top of the pyramid. At the top of his hierarchy is self-actualization. Maslow suggests that when the other needs at the bottom of the pyramid is met, the individual can then focus their attention on the other needs at the top. For many, self-actualization is a fulfillment of

Firstly, Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs can be expressed in many teaching practices seen at Mt. Maria College. The Hierarchy of Needs can be defined as a theory f psychological wellbeing/ health that is very much dependent on different levels of needs. Each level requires that it be satisfied before the following levels can be addressed. For example, shown in Appendix (?) There are five prioritized levels of needs shown in a pyramid. Starting from the foundation of the pyramid and working its way to the smaller and least vital at the topmost level. These needs are what motivate our actions.

However, in order to accomplish these goals, those five needs are required to fulfill. There are five levels in a triangle and each level represents a goal or one of our needs. The pyramid structure can be break down into five levels. The most basic need is physiological needs, which appears at the bottom, defined as things we need to survive. For next step up is the safety needs, which can be described as people’s need to have a security place to live and work. The former two needs we mentioned are categorized as basic or lower needs. In the middle level is the emotional needs or the belonging needs, which refers to our willingness to have a sense of belonging or build relationship with surrounding people. Next level is esteem needs, which are things that make us feel good or significant. Each time a lower needs is fulfilled, you then can move up to the next needs until you reach the top, which is self-actuation. According to Maslow, self-actualization indicates that people are eager to achieve humans full potential and reach out of the world. The latter two needs that Maslow hierarchy chart show are higher needs. Therefore, Maslow’s hierarchical needs theory mainly focuses on what actually motivates people to do the things they do, to behave the way they behave.