Abraham Maslow Flashcards
Abraham maslow did what?
Psychological health and self-actualization
Define pathology and psychology
Reductive analytical approach that reduces humans to a collection of habits and conflicts. Overlooks the essence of human nature
Define health psychology
seen as an absence of pathology, studies the person as a thinking, feeling totality
What was Maslow’s aim?
To study healthy personality in its journey to self-actualization
From top to bottom, what is Maslows hierarchy (pyramid) of human needs?
- self-actualization
- esteem
- Love/Belonging
- Safety
- Psychological
from the base up, what is the hierarchy of deficiency needs?
Physiological, safety, belongings and love, esteem needs
What two parts of the hierarchy of human needs fall in the “being” section
Self-actualization, Higher esteem. These correspond to the eigenwelt and the uberwelt
What percentage of the population is self-actualizing?
1-2%
Define growth motivation
In contrast to deficit motivation, these are needs that do not involve maintenance of homeostasis. Instead, continuous desire to fulfill potentials.
What are the two internal factors that prevent the majority of the population from achieving self-actualization?
- Self actualization is swallowed up lower needs that need to be met.
- Most people fear the kind of knowledge about themselves self-actualization requires
What are the two external factors that prevent the majority of the population from achieving self-actualization?
- Socio-political environment prevents most people from entertaining possibilities of self-actualization
- Cultural environment can stifle tendency toward actualization
In later theories, what further need was placed on top of self-actualization?
Self-transcendence
Self-transcendence corresponds to what welt
uberwelt
