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This 6 page paper discusses Maslow and his hierarchy of needs. The writer comments on events in his life that influenced his work and the reason he looked to another approach to understanding human personality. The two highest levels in the hierarchy are discussed the most and are related to free will. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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he studied the literature on motivation that originated in diverse fields of study such as biology and psychology (Huitt, 2004). From his vast research, Maslow offered a theory of motivation
that has two major categories: deficiency needs and growth needs (Huitt, 2004). Deficiency needs are those things the individual needs to survive (Huitt, 2004). These are basic survival needs (Huitt,
2004). Once these needs are satisfied an individual becomes interested in growth (Huitt, 2004). Maslow presented his theory in the form of a pyramid to demonstrate that each need is
progressive from the last and the greatest drive or motivation occurs when a person needs the basics of survival like air, water and food (Huitt, 2004). The bottom of the
pyramid reflects the physiological needs of hunger, thirst, bodily comforts, etc. (Huitt, 2004). After these needs are met, the individual become driven by the need for security, to be safe
from danger (Huitt, 2004). The needs continue up through the need for belongingness and the need for esteem, (Huitt, 2004). These are the deficiency needs. Maslow believed that "gratification of
needs (physiological, safety, belongingness and love, esteem, and self-actualization) leads to psychological health" (Pettifor, 1996). Moving up the scale, Maslow identified growth needs: cognitive, aesthetic, self-actualization and finally self-transcendence (Huitt,
2004). The two highest needs are sometimes referred to as Being values," "B-values" or meta-needs (Boeree, 2006; Pettifor, 1996). Maslow found that self-actualizers looked at the world differently, they were
problem-centered by which Maslow meant self-actualizers viewed difficulties in life as problems that demanded solutions (Boeree, 2004). These people also had a firm grasp of reality, they know what is
real and genuine and what is dishonest and fake (Boeree, 2004). Typically, self-actualizers do not believe the ends necessarily justify the means (Boeree, 2004). Instead, they often feel the journey
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