Maslow: Holistic Dynamic Perspective Flashcards
assumes that the whole person is constantly motivated by one need or another.
Include self respect, confidence, and the knowledge that others hold them in high self esteem
Esteem Needs
Maslow held that self actualizing people are motivated by the eternal verities
B-Values
Needs that are not universal and not included in the hierarchy
Aesthetic Needs
Cognitive Needs
Neurotic Needs
ordinarily conscious, effortful, learned, and determined by the external environment
Coping behavior
when people have partially satisfied their physiological they become motivated by
Safety Needs
the potential to grow toward psychological health
Self Actualization
Assumes that lower level needs must be satisfied or at least relatively satisfied before higher level needs become motivators
Hierarchy of Needs
Lack of any of the basic needs leads to some kind of pathology
Deprivation of needs
to embrace the being values, that is to value truth, justice, goodness, simplicity, and so forth.
Psychotherapy
results in malnutrition, fatigue, loss of energy, obsession with sex and so on.
Deprivation of physiological needs
Maslow hyphothesizes that some human needs are innately determined even though they can be modified by learning
Instinctoid Nature of Needs
Include self fulfillment, the realization of all one’s potential, and a desire to become creative in the full sense of the world.
Self Actualization Needs
Unproductive, they perpetuate an unhealthy style of life and have no value in the striving for self actualization
Neurotic Needs
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Physiological Needs
Safety Needs
Love and Belongingness
Esteem Needs
Self-Actualization Needs
the most basic needs of any person
Physiological Needs
the fear of being one’s best
Jonah Complex
the perception of the prestige, recognition, or fame a person has achieved in the eyes of others, whereas self esteem is a person own feelings of worth and confidence
Reputation
the whole function, not any single part or function, is motivated
holistic approach to motivation
when one need is satisfied, it ordinarily loses its motivational power and is then replaced by another need.
People are continually motivated by one need or another
also leads to pathology, or more accurately, metapathology
Deprivation of self actualization needs
Most people have a desire to know, to solve mysteries, to understand, and to be curious.
Cognitive Needs
the absence of values, the lack of fulfillment, and the loss of meaning in life.
Metapathology
the five needs composing the hierarchy, meaning that they have a striving or motivational character.
Conative Needs
Maslow termed B-Values ___________ to indicate that they are the ultimate level of needs
Metaneeds
