maslow

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    • 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.
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