Maslow Flashcards
Maslow’s view on motivation
- Holistic approach
- Motivation is complex
- Continually motivated by one need or another
- All people are motivated by the same basic needs
- Needs can be arranged on a hierarchy
Assumes that lower level needs mist be satisfied or at least relatively satisfied before higher needs become motivators
Hierarchy of needs
The components of hierarchy kf needs are called
Conative needs
they have a striving or motivational character
Conative needs
Hierarchy of needs
1 physiological 2 safety 3 love and belongingness 4 esteem 5 self actualization
2 difference of physiological needs to other
1 they canbe overly satisfied
2 recurring in nature
Most basic need
Physiological needs
Differ from physiological needs that it cant be overly satisfied
Children mostly often motivated by this because they live with such threats as punishment ect
Safety needs
Healthy people who constantly try to satisfy safety needs siffer from
Basic anxiety
2 levels of esteem needs
Reputation
Self esteem
Perception of the prestige, recognition, or fame a person has achieved in the eyes of others
Reputation
Person’s own feelings of worth and confidence
Based on real competence
Self esteem
Aesthetic needs
Desire for beautiful and orderly surroundings
Desire to know, to solve mysteries, to ubderstand, and to be curious.
This is necessary to satisfy each five conative needs
Cognitive needs
Pathology of cognitive needs
Skepticism
Disillusionment
Cynicism
usually reactive and serve as a compensation for unsatisfied basic needs
Neurotic needs
Hypothetical average a person has hi/her conative need satisfeed
Physiological 85 Safety 70 Love and belongingness 50 Esteem 40 Self actualization 10
It is frequently unconscious and usually takes place naturally and with little effort
No goal or aim just a person’s mode of expression
Can continue withouth a reinforcement or a reward
Unlearned spontaneous determined by forces within not with the environment
Expressive behavior
Ordinarily conscious effortful learned and determined by external environment
Serves some aim or goal and it is motivated by some deficit need
Coping behavior
Deprivation of self actualization needs
The abscence of values, lack of fulfillment, and loss of meaning in life
Metapathology
human needs that are innstely determined even though they can be modified by learning
Instinctoid needs
Criterion for non instinctoid and instinctoid
- Level of pathology upon frustration.
- Instinctoid needs are persistent and their satisfaction leads to psychological health. Non instinctoid is temporary and not a pre requisite for health.
- Need are species -specific.
- Can be molded or altered by environmental influences.
Comparison of higher and lower needs
1 degree. higher level need are on the phylogenetic or evolutionary scale and appear later during the course of the individual. Lower needs must be cared for before higher
2 higher level of needs produces more happiness and more peak experience. Lower needs produces degree of pleasure
Criteria for self actualization
Free from psychopathology
Had progressed through the hierarchy of needs
Embraced the B values
Full use and exploitation of talents, capacities, and potentialities
Self actualizing people are motivated by
They are the ultimate level of needs
B values
Characteristics of self actualizing people
1 more efficient perception of reality - suited to be philosophers, explorers, or scientists
2 accept self, others, and nature
3 spontaneity, simplicity, and naturalness
4 problem centering
5 need for privacy
6 autonomy
7 continued freshness of appreciation
8 peak experience
9 social interest
10 profound interpersonal relations
11 Democratic character structure
12 discrimination between means and ends
13 philosophical sense of humor
14 creativeness
15 resistance to enculturation
Type of science that lacks emotion, joy, wonder, awe, rupture.
Desacralization
one that would be non interfering, passive, receptive. Would abolish prediction and control
Taoistic attitude for psychology
blocks people toward self actualization
Fear of one’s best
Represents a fear of success, a fear of being one’s best, a feeling of awesomeness in the presence of beauty and perfection
Jonah complex