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    Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist who developed a hierarchy of needs to explain human motivation. His hierarchy suggested that people must satisfy basic needs like food and shelter before pursuing social, emotional, and self-actualization needs. Maslow helped found humanistic psychology, which emphasizes looking at the whole individual and concepts like self-efficacy and self-actualization rather than dysfunction. He believed people have an innate drive for self-actualization and identified 15 traits of self-actualized individuals, including problem-centering, autonomy, and creativity.

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    Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist who developed a hierarchy of needs to explain human motivation. His hierarchy suggested that people must satisfy basic needs like food and shelter before pursuing social, emotional, and self-actualization needs. Maslow helped found humanistic psychology, which emphasizes looking at the whole individual and concepts like self-efficacy and self-actualization rather than dysfunction. He believed people have an innate drive for self-actualization and identified 15 traits of self-actualized individuals, including problem-centering, autonomy, and creativity.

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    Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist who developed a hierarchy of needs to explain human motivation. His hierarchy suggested that people must satisfy basic needs like food and shelter before pursuing social, emotional, and self-actualization needs. Maslow helped found humanistic psychology, which emphasizes looking at the whole individual and concepts like self-efficacy and self-actualization rather than dysfunction. He believed people have an innate drive for self-actualization and identified 15 traits of self-actualized individuals, including problem-centering, autonomy, and creativity.

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    Abraham

    Maslow
    Humanistic Psychology
    Introduction
    • Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist who
    developed a hierarchy of needs to explain human
    motivation.
    • His theory suggested that people have a number of basic
    needs that must be met before people move up the
    hierarchy to pursue more social, emotional, and self-
    actualizing needs.
    Maslow's Early Life.
    • Abraham Harold Maslow was born in april, 1908, in
    Brooklyn California. He is a Humanistic Psychologist.

    • As a Humanist, he believed that people have an inborn


    desire to be self actualized, that is, to be all they can be.

    • He was a law student before developing an Interest in


    Psychology.
    Humanistic
    Psychology
    During the 1950s, Maslow became one of the founders and driving
    forces behind the school of thought known as humanistic
    psychology. His theories—including the hierarchy of needs, self-
    actualization, and peak experiences—became fundamental subjects
    in the humanist movement.
    Humanistic
    Psychology
    Humanistic psychology is a perspective that emphasizes looking at the
    whole individual and stresses concepts such as free will, self-efficacy, and
    self-actualization. Rather than concentrating on dysfunction, humanistic
    psychology strives to help people fulfill their potential and maximize their
    well-being.
    Physiological Needs.
    These are needs which must
    be met to maintain life.
    Oxygen, food, drink,
    temperature, etc. are
    included.
    These needs are expressed in such desires as protection
    from physical danger (fire, accidents, or criminal assaults),
    the quest for economic security; and desire to know the
    limits or boundaries of acceptable or permissible behavior,
    that is, the desire for freedom within limits rather than
    unrestricted permissiveness.
    Love and
    Belonging.
    The individual wants to
    belong to associate, to gain
    acceptance from his fellows,
    to give and receive
    friendship and affection.
    Deprived of these comforts,
    he will want them as
    intensely as a hungry man
    wants food.
    Esteem
    needs
    Esteem or egoistic needs
    are both for self-esteem
    and for the esteem of
    others.
    Self -
    Actualization.

    These are the individual’s needs for


    realizing his own potentialities, for self-
    fulfillment; for continued self-
    development, for being creative in the
    broadest sense of that term.
    The well adjusted
    Individual.
    There are different views
    about what makes an
    adjusted person- the
    actualizing person as he
    termed it.

    Maslow (1954) provides a list


    of 15 traits that he believed
    were the characteristics of
    self-actualizing people.
    1. More efficient perception of reality.
    2. Acceptance of self and others.
    3. Spontaneity.
    4. Problem centering.
    5. Detachment.
    6. Autonomy.
    7. Continued freshness of appreciations, even often repeated experiences.
    8. Mystical experiences, or the classic feeling.
    9. Social interest.
    10. Interpersonal relationships.
    11. Democratic character.
    12. Discrimination between the means and ends.
    13. Sense of humor.
    14. Creativeness.
    15. Resistance to enculturation.
    Overview
    Abraham Maslow was one of the most influential
    psychologists of the twentieth century.
    Maslow’s career in psychology greatly predated the modern
    positive psychology movement, yet the field as we know it would
    likely look very different were it not for him.

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