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