Maslow Flashcards
Famous quote from Maslow? What does it mean?
“Anyone who observes a baby cannot be a behaviorist.”
Babies already exhibit many in-born personalities. He thought that calling oneself a “behaviorist” after observing a baby was hypocritical.
What are Maslow’s core tendencies?
Five basic needs:
Self-actualization, esteem, love, safety, physiological
What is Maslow’s core structure?
Hierarchy
How are Maslow’s five basic needs listed? Which comes first? Which comes last?
Self-actualization (last) Esteem Love Safety Physiological (first)
Which needs are considered “upper needs”/B values?
Self-actualization, esteem, and love
Which needs are considered “lower needs”/D values?
Love, safety, and physiological
What are the symptoms for the physiological need?
Hunger, thirst, and pain
What are the symptoms for the safety need?
Sense of loss, insecurity, and fear
What are the symptoms for the love need?
Loneliness, emptiness, and unwanted
What are the symptoms for the esteem need?
Inferiority, incompetence, and negativity
What are the symptoms for the self-actualization need?
Boredom, the belief that life is routine and meaningless
True or false: Maslow believed that we were stuck at a certain level
False. He believed we weren’t stuck at a level, and we could go through different levels multiple times. However, he believed that some individuals can struggle more at one level than another.
When a person’s needs at a certain level are fulfilled…
Their “illness” can disappear (i.e., hunger, depression)
If all needs are unsatisfied…
Then that person is at a physiological level
Which are the regulations/rules of Maslow’s Hierarchy?
1) Potency of needs
2) Evolution
3) Biological vs. psychological
4) Difficulty of gratification
5) D. vs. B. mechanisms
Which level is more potent? Which level is less potent?
More potent: physiological
Less potent: self-actualization
According to evolution, it describes…
How widely they are shared among living things
The order of levels in which they appear
Which are the biological needs? Which are the psychological needs?
Biological: lower needs
Psychological: upper needs
The difficulty of gratification describes…
Which level is more difficult to fulfill
Which level is least difficult to fulfill
What do B values motivate us to do?
They motivate us to do something that improves us and to do better
What do D values motivate us to do?
They motivate us to accept our needs
Why is love split between both B and D values?
It’s split into B value because it causes excitement; desperation drives individual to find love
It’s also split into D value because the patience drives individual to find love
The actualized person has “_____” experiences.
Peak
What are the traits of an actualized person?
Creative Spontaneous Open to experience Accepting of themselves Social interest Democratic Challenged by life Excited Meaningful
True or false: Maslow does not believe that self-actualization is actually permanent
True
What are needs?
Desires for certain satisfactions that are sought by all humans, regardless of their culture, environment, or generation
What does Maslow believe about drive?
He stated that drive was inherently ambiguous, and was an entirely satisfactory motivational concept, even though it is a simple tension that demands to be satisfied.
According to Maslow, while the needs a person experiences are universal, the methods used to satisfy them may be…
Specific to the individual’s culture
This level encompasses specific biological requirements for water, oxygen, proteins, vitamins, proper body temperature, sleep, sex, exercise, and so on.
Physiological
This level includes security, protection, stability, structure, law and order, and freedom for fear and chaos.
Safety
This level orients the person toward affectionate relations with people, and a sense of place in family and groups.
Love
This level includes two kinds: 1) there are personal desires for adequacy, mastery, competence, achievement, confidence, independence, and freedom; and 2) there are desires for respect from other people, including attention, recognition, appreciation, status, prestige, fame, dominance, and dignity.
Esteem
This level states “the desire for self-fulfillment… the tendency for [one] to become actualized in what [one] is potentially.”
Self-actualization
What are deficiency needs?
D-values. The satisfaction of which allow the person to avoid physical sickness and psychological maladjustment.
What does pre-potent mean?
More urgently demanding than higher order needs. Needs lower in the hierarchy occur earlier in the developmental process and require gratification prior to higher-order needs.
Maslow considers all human needs and values _____, or instinct-like, because of their biological, genetic, and universal characteristics. Thus, all basic and higher-order needs are biological needs.
Instinctoid
What are B-values?
Ultimate or end-goals of meta-need fulfillment; are more likely to be possessed by self-actualizers than by others.
