Abraham Maslow and His Theory on the Hierachy of Needs

Abraham Maslow and His Theory on the Hierachy of Needs

Born April1,1908 Abraham Maslow was the oldest of seven children born

to his parents in Brooklyn New York. Feeling pressure from his parents to

achieve academic greatness, Abraham went through early childhood with few

friends. Focusing mainly on his studies Maslow had a quiet and unfulfilling

adolescence.

Abraham started off his college career by attending city college in New

York were he began to study law, as his father had wanted him to do. He soon

lost interest and transferred to the University of Wisconsin and studied

psychology. Here Maslow received, in 1934, his Ph.D. During his college career

Abraham married his cousin Bertha Goodman, his parents did not approve of the

union and were saddened by it . While Maslow was at Wisconsin he met a man

named Harry Harlow, Harlow had a great affect on Maslow and his thinking .

Another one of Maslows role models was E.L Thorndike who got him interested

in human sexuality.

Abraham took a job at Brooklyn College ,it is here were he took interest in

humanistic psychology. And developed his theory on the "Hierarchy of Needs",

and the idea of self-actualization. Maslow would go on to be one of the greatest

humanistic and behavioral psychologists to date.

Trying to get up that great big hill hope for his destination Abraham

Maslow created the hierarchy of needs. Which takes us from basic physical

needs to self -actualization.

Maslow believed each person was born with his or hers mental, creative ,

and social potential. It is as if each person is given an empty glass. Each glass is

a different size, some may be capable of holding 10oz others 20oz, it is only a

matter of filling them up. The proble...

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... group is good

then wouldn't the group as a whole be good also? There is a very good point and

a flaw to this theory I feel. Maslow could not have left such a huge gap in his

theory, there must be an explanation. I thought, Maslow did not say each person

was perfect but good. So this means the individual still good has faults. And even

if individual has only one actual sin, put six billion of those people together and

they will learn from one another. So the individuals sin becomes the fall of the

society as a whole. That is just my thought on the matter.

Toward a Psychology of being(1968)

People and Decisions

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bhmasl.html

Maslows Hierarchy of needs

http://www.connect.net/georgen/maslow.htm

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