Maslows Hierarchy of Human Needs

Abraham Harold Maslow

According to Maslow's theory, all needs have a certain priority. Needs of one level must at least partially fulfilled before a person can realize higher needs. (Ryder/Decker, 391)

What are Maslows Human Needs? Can you guess

Self-actualization

what Maslows levels of needs are?

Esteem Needs Love and Acceptance Needs Safety and Security Needs Physical Needs

Physical needs
What did Maslow mean by physical needs?

Food Water Air Shelter Clothing

What physical needs do every person have?

These items are essential for good health and wellbeing, and for continuation of life.

Physical needs

In your learning log, consider these questions? Write your answers in complete sentences.

Are you meeting these needs for your well being and good health? Who provides these needs for you? Could you provide these needs for a baby?

Safety and Security Needs

Staying well, avoiding being ill How do these Avoiding danger safety and security needs relate to you? Safe circumstances Stability Protection Structure, for order, some limits

Safety and Security Needs

In the ordinary American adult, this set of needs manifests itself in the form of our urges to have a home in a safe neighborhood, a little job security and a nest egg, a good retirement plan and a bit of insurance, and so on.

Which of these are met for you? Which of these needs could you provide for a baby?

Love and Acceptance Needs

Friends, sweetheart, children, affectionate relationships in general, even a sense of community

What are some examples of love and acceptance you see in your life?

The Esteem needs

Self-esteem

The need for the respect of others, the need for status, fame, glory, recognition, attention, reputation, appreciation, dignity, even dominance. Confidence, competence, achievement, mastery, independence, and freedom

Self-respect

Self-actualization

According to Maslow, only a small percentage of the worlds population is truly, predominantly, self-actualizing.
Can you think of people who fit into the self-actualization category?

Self-actualization

Knowledge and appreciation of beauty, goodness, freedom and a realistic view and acceptance of self and others. Reality-centered, differentiate what is fake and dishonest from what is real and genuine. Problem-centered, treating lifes difficulties as problems demanding solutions, not as personal troubles to be railed at or surrendered to. Different perception of means and ends, felt that the ends dont necessarily justify the means, that the means could be ends themselves, and that the means -- the journey -- was often more important than the ends.