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Maslow’s Theory of

Hierarchy of
Needs
Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)

Professor of psychology
Columbia University
Original Thinker
Predecessor and focused on the
abnormal or ill
Maslows focused on positive's
qualities of people
 Psychologist Abraham Maslow identified five categories of basic
needs common to all people. Maslow represented these needs as a
hierarchy in the shape of a pyramid. A hierarchy is an arrangement
that ranks people or concepts from lowest to highest.
 According to Maslow, individuals must meet the needs at the
lower levels of the pyramid before they can successfully be
motivated to tackle the next levels. The lowest three levels
represent deficiency needs, and the upper two levels represent
growth needs.
Growth needs

DEFICIENCY
NEEDS
Maslow’s Hierarchy of
Needs
Some examples of the
MOST NEEDS HAVE TO DO WITH
SURVIVAL PHYSICALLY AND physiological needs include:
PSYCHOLOGICALLY • Food
• Water
• Breathing
• Homeostasis

PSYCHOLOGICAL
On the whole an individual cannot satisfy any
level unless needs below are.
 The needs for security and safety
become primary. Some of the basic security and safety
needs include:
• Financial security
• Heath and wellness
• Safety against accidents and injury

SAFETY NEEDS

PHYSIOLOGICAL
 At this level, the need for
emotional relationships drives
human behavior. Some of the
things that satisfy this need
• Need to Love and be Loved
include:
• Need to feel a sense of belonging and
acceptances
• SMALL GROUPS – school, clubs, friends
and family.
• LARGE GROUPS – political party, sports
team and Facebook.

SOCIAL NEEDS

SAFETY NEEDS

PHYSIOLOGICAL
 The need for appreciation and respect
• Respected by others and turn
them respect
• Sense of contribution, to feel
self-valued in profession or
hobby
• Lower(respect of others)
• Higher (self respect,
ESTEEM
strenght)
NEEDS

SOCIAL NEEDS

SAFETY NEEDS

PHYSIOLOGICAL
SELF- ACTUALIZATION NEEDS
• Creativity
• Morality NEED
• Problem solving SELF-
• Lack of prejudice ACTUALIZATION

• Acceptances of Facts
ESTEEM
NEEDS

SOCIAL NEEDS

SAFETY NEEDS

PHYSIOLOGICAL
According to Maslow’s definition of self-actualization:
"It may be loosely described as the full use and
exploitation of talents, capabilities, potentialities,
etc. Such people seem to be fulfilling themselves
and to be doing the best that they are capable of
doing... They are people who have developed or are
developing to the full stature of which they
capable."
Self-actualizing people are self-aware, concerned with personal
growth, less concerned with the opinions of others, and interested
fulfilling their potential.
Eight ways to self-actualize
• Experience things fully, vividly, selflessly.
Throw yourself into the experience;
concentrate on it fully; let it totally absorb
you.
• Life is an ongoing process of choosing
between safety (out of fear ) and risk (for
the sake of growth: make the growth
choice a dozen times a day.
• Let the self emerge. Try to shut out
external clues as to what you should think,
feel, say and let your experience enable
you to say what you truly feel.
Eight ways to self-actualize....
• When in doubt, be honest. If you look
into yourself and are honest, you will also
take responsibility; taking responsibility
is self-actualizing.
• Listen to your own tastes. Be prepared to
be unpopular.
• Use your intelligence. Work to do well
the things you want to do, whether that
means finger exercises at a keyboard,
memorizing every bone, muscle and
hormone in the human body, or learning
to finish wood so it looks and feels like
Eight ways to self-actualize....
• Make peak experiencing more likely:
get rid of illusions and false notions;
learn what you are good at and what
your potentialities are not.
• Find out who you are, what you like
and don’t like, what is good and
what is bad for you, where you are
going, what your mission is.
Opening yourself up in this way
means identifying defenses - and
then finding the courage to give
them up.

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