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Maslow Inventory Test Results

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Maslow Inventory Test Results Physiological Needs | | |||| | 20% | Safety Needs | | |||||| | 27% | Love Needs | | |||||| | 27% | Esteem Needs | | |||||||||||||||| | 64% | Self-Actualization | | |||||||||||| | 41% | Abraham Maslow authored the Hierarchy of Needs theory, stating that human beings are motivated by unsatisfied needs, and that certain lower needs have to be satisfied before higher needs can be attended to. It is debatable that needs fulfillment occurs in as linear a fashion as Maslow presents (or that Maslows needs structure is entirely accurate), but you can decide that for yourself. Also, higher needs tend to be more complex and vague in what qualifies as need satisfaction. The following results are listed …show more content…

At the oral stage the main issue is dependency, at the anal stage the main issue is self control, at the phallic stage the main issue is sexual identity, at the latency stage it 's skill development, and at the genital stage its creativity and productivity.Freud theorized that psychological problems are related to problems during one or more of these stages. For example, being too cared for or too neglected causes someone to be orally fixated, too much or too little control causes someone to be anally fixated, insufficient parental role modeling causes phallic fixation.An orally fixated person is either irrationally dependent (expects what they want to just appear) or irrationally independent (always refuses help).An anally fixated person is either irrationally self controlled and servile to authority or has no self control and is compulsively defiant of authority.A phallicly fixated person is either a sexual compulsive (sexually innappropriate/promiscuous) or sexually repressed.Freud did not classify any latent fixation but I think it is as plausible as those at the other stages. I speculate that people that like to learn and acquire knowledge without any purpose or people that are compulsively non curious represent both dysfunctional ends of

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