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Understanding Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for Human Behavior

Explore Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, focusing on humanist psychology and self-actualization. Discover how basic needs like safety, belonging, esteem, and self-actualization drive human behavior.

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Understanding Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for Human Behavior

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  1. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Human behavior

  2. Humanist Psychology • Humanist do not believe that human being are pushed and pulled by mechanical forces, either of stimuli and reinforcements (behaviorism) or of unconscious instinctual impulses (psychoanalysis). • Humanists focus upon potentials.

  3. Humanists continued • They believe that humans strive for an upper level of capabilities. • Humans seek the frontiers of creativity, the highest reaches of consciousness and wisdom.

  4. Maslow Said: • All human behavior is motivated by a desire to satisfy needs. • In order for a person to keep striving towards the ultimate in his/her growth there has to be a feeling of accomplishment

  5. Hierarchy of needs

  6. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Self-Actualization Esteem Belonging Safety Physiological More complex Basic

  7. PhysiologicalNeeds Physiological (Physical) Needs • Food • Air • Water • Sleep • Sex (reproduction)

  8. Sleep

  9. Quick Write: • Write about a time when you stayed up all night. Why did you stay up? How did you feel the next day? • Sleep QUIZ--https://sleepfoundation.org/quiz/sleep-iq-quiz

  10. Safety Needs Safety and Security • Protection • Stability • Pain Avoidance • Routine/Order • Freedom from fear • Order

  11. Safety: the condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury. • Security: the state of feeling safe, stable, and free from fear or anxiety.

  12. What are some ways you feel safe and secure at home? • What are some ways you feel safe and secure at school? • When was a time you didn’t feel safe or secure?

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  14. Love and Belonging Love and Belonging • Affection • Acceptance • Inclusion • Friendship • Intimacy

  15. Love and Belonging • Having a sense of love and belonging allows us to give and receive affection from another person

  16. This is the third level of the hierarchy. Remember once all or most of a person’s physiological and safety needs have been met, one can move on to LOVE and BELONGING.

  17. Esteem Esteem Needs • Self-Respect • Self-Esteem • Respected by Others • Achievement • Mastery • Independence • Status

  18. Esteem • What is self-esteem? • What role does self-esteem play in leading a healthy lifestyle? • What role does self-esteem play in decision making? • What are some poor decisions someone who lacks self-esteem make? • What are some good decisions someone who has high self esteem make?

  19. Basic needs • Physiological/physical, safety and security, love and belonging, esteem are all BASIC needs • Maslow says these needs motivate people if they are unmet • The longer they go unmet, the more intense the desire to meet the need becomes • Ex. Hunger becomes more intense if food need not met

  20. Self-Actualization • Achieve full potential • Fulfillment • Seeking personal growth • Have peak experiences

  21. Self-Actualization • Closely related with self-esteem. • Maslow said that only 1 in 100 people will become self-actualized • Cannot be obtained unless all other areas are mastered first. • Living up to your full potential • This will look different for each person

  22. Words to Describe: • Self Acceptance • Democratic worldview • Realistic • Problem Centered • Have ‘Peak Experiences’ • Moral • Creative • Spontaneous • Lacks Prejudice • Accepts Facts • Autonomous • Take time for solitude and privacy • Enjoy the journey

  23. What Self-Actualized People Might do: • Pray • Problem Solve • Develop Ideas that would help themselves and others. • Help others • Do the best they can do at what they do. • Enjoy the journey to reaching their goals as much as reaching it. • Enjoy the humor in different situations and laugh at themselves. • Take time to discover themselves and their individual potential.

  24. Growth needs • Involve the desire to grow as an individual and fulfill one’s own potential • What could hinder a person not living up to their potential?

  25. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Self-Actualization Esteem Belonging Safety Physiological • People can move up and down the hierarchy • When in life do people move down the hierarchy?

  26. Write down one self-actualized person you know of. • Can a high school student be self-actualized?

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