People are continually motivated by one need or another
lower level needs have this over higher level needs
prepotency
The five needs are connative needs, meaning they have a striving or motivational character
Physiological needs
They are the only needs that can be completely satisfied or even overly satisfied.
Physiologicalneeds
This is the recuring nature
safety needs
They cannot be overly satisfied
esteem needs
include self-respect, confidence, competence, and the knowledge that others hold them
reputation
A level of esteem needs in the eye of others
self-esteem
level of esteem needs with own feelings of worth and confidence
self-actualization
the realization of all one's potential and a desire to become creative in the full sense of the word
self-actualizers
not dependent on the satisfaction of either love or esteem needs; they become independent from the lower level needs that gave them birth
being values
indicators of psychological health and are opposed to deficiency needs, which motivate non-self actualizers
metaneeds
Maslow termed this to b-values to indicate that they are the ultimate level of needs.
metamotivation
motives of self-actualizing people
Existential illness
Maslow hypothesized that when people's metaneeds are not met, they experience this.
Absence of the B-values leads to a pathology
Metapathology
the lack of a meaningful philosophy of life
Self-actualizing people are capable of both giving and receiving love and are no longer motivated by the kind of deficiency love
B-love
Mutually felt and shared and are not motivated by a deficiency or incompleteness within the lover.
Aestheticneeds
The need for beauty and aesthetically pleasing experiences.
Cognitiveneeds
desire to know, to solve mysteries, to understand, and to be curious.
Neurotic needs
lead only to stagnation and pathology
unmotivatedbehavior
conditioned reflexes, maturation, or drugs
Expressive behavior
frequently unconcious and usually takes place naturally and with little effort. It has no goals and is merely the person's mode of expression
Coping behavior
ordinarily conscious, effortful, learned and determined by the external environment
Expressive behaviour
This behaviour is often unmotivated
Copingbehavior
This behavior is always motivated and aimed at satisfying a need
Deprivation needs
lack of satisfaction of any of the basic needs, leads to some kind of pathology
Metapathology
deprivation of self-actualization needs
Metapathology
The absence of values, the lack of fulfillment, and the loss of meaning life
instinctoid needs
maslow hypothesized that some human needs are innately determined even though they can be modified by learning.
jonah complex
Everyone is born with a will toward health, a tendency to grow toward self-actualization, but fe people reach it. One of the reason is the fear of being one's best.
Psychotherapy
The aim of therapy would be for clients to embrace the being values
psychotherapy
A largely intepersonal process
Psychotherapy
should be directed at the need level currently being thwarted, in most cases love and belongingness needs.