maslow

Cards (45)

  • motivation
    usually complex
  • people are continually motivated by one need or another
  • Assumes that lower level needs MUST be satisfied or at least relatively satisfied before higher level needs become motivators.
  • Lower level needs have PREPOTENCY over higher level needs; that is, they must be satisfied or mostly satisfied before higher level needs become activated.
  • The five needs are CONATIVE NEEDS, meaning they have a striving or motivational character
  • physiological needs
    MOST basic needs of any person
  • physiological needs
    most prepotent of all
  • physiological needs
    They are the only needs that can be completely satisfied or even overly satisfied
  • physiological need
    recuring nature
  • safety needs
    Differ from physiological needs in that they CANNOT BE OVERLY SATISFIED
  • safety needs
    physical security, stability, dependency, protection, and freedom from threatening forces
  • love and belonging needs
    desire for friendship, wish for a mate and children, need to belong to a family, a club, a neighborhood, or a nation.
  • love and belongingness needs
    Includes some aspect of sex and human contact as well as the need to both give and receive love.
  • esteem needs
    include self-respect, confidence, competence, and the knowledge that others hold them in high esteem
  • reputation
    in the eyes of others
  • self esteem
    levels of esteem needs own feelings of worth and confidence
  • self actualization
    include self- fulfillment, 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.
  • self actualizing
    People who highly respect such values as truth, beauty, justice and the other b-values become what?
  • b values
    indicators of psychological health and are opposed to DEFICIENCY NEEDS, which motivate non-self actualizers
  • metaneeds
    He termed b values this 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?
  • pathology
    Absence of the B-values leads to
  • metapathology
    Deprivation of any of the B-values results in this or 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.
  • aesthetic needs
    the need for beauty and aesthetically pleasing experiences
  • cognitive needs
    desire to know, to solve mysteries, to understand, and to be curious
  • neurotic needs
    lead only to stagnation and pathology
  • Reversed need
    usually more apparent than real. If we understood the unconscious motivation underlying the behavior, we would recognize that the needs are not reversed.
  • unmotivated behavior
    conditioned reflexes, maturation, or drugs.
  • expressive behaviour
    which is often unmotivated
  • coping behavior
    which is always motivated and aimed at satisfying a need.
  • expressive behavior
    frequently unconscious 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.
  • deprivation of needs
    Lack of satisfaction of any of the basic needs leads to some kind of pathology
  • metapathology
    deprivation of self- actualization needs, the absence of values, the lack of fulfillment, and the loss of meaning in life
  • instictoid needs
    Maslow hypothesized that some human needs are innately determined even though they can be modified by learning.
  • Higher needs are similar to lower ones in that they are instinctoid.