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Albert Maslow Timeline

  • Born in April 1, 1908 

  • became interested in psychology at the university of wisconsin (years)

    • worked there for some time with henry harlow

  • received his bachelors in 1930, masters in 1931, and doctorate in 1934 (all in psychology and from the university of wisconsin)

  • began teaching full time at brooklyn college (1937-1951)

  • served as the chair of the psychology dept at braindeis (1951-1969)

  • during the 1950s he was involved in the founding and was one of the driving forces behind the school of thought: humanistic psychology

    • theories: hierarchy of needs (year), self-actualization (year), and peak experiences (year)

    • Died on June 8, 1970

BEST KNOWN READS BY ABRAHAM MASLOW

toward a psychology of being (1962)

motivation and personality (first edition: 1954; second edition: 1970)

the further reaches of human nature (1971)

 

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Nature vs. Nurture Stance

Abraham Maslow believed that personality was based on meeting survival and other needs. He thought that all basic needs should be met but each person can do things differently. He thought that basically, even though the needs are natural or inherited, the behaviors we use to meet these needs can be learned differently as it varies from person to person. Abraham thought that the needs drive us (nature), however, all of the behaviors learned, based off our environment and previous experience affects how we work to complete the needs. (nurture) Abraham Maslow did not have one stance on nature vs. nurture, but instead felt like personality is determined by both nature and nurture.

 

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  • Self-Actualization-Realizing full potential of the self and to become everything

  • Esteem needs-Gaining recognition and having activities that give the person a sense of contribution and feelings of value

  • Love and Belonging needs-Friendship, Intimacy, and Family.

  • Safety Needs- Personal security, Financial security, Health and well-being, Safety net against accidents/illness and their adverse impacts

  • Physiological Needs-Water, Food, Clothing, Shelter, etc..

  • Hierarchy of Needs-Physiological, Safety, Love and belonging, Esteem, Self-actualization. It is arranged from strongest to weakest; Activates & directs behavior; One need dominates at a time

  • Cognitive needs-Natural needs to know and to understand; Second set of innate needs; Appears in early childhood; Important for self-actualization

  • Deficiency needs-The lower needs; failure to satisfy them produces a deficiency in the body.

  • Growth (being) needs-The higher needs; although growth needs are less necessary than deficit needs for survival, they involve the realization and fulfillment of human potential.

  • Hierarchy of five innate needs-An arrangement of innate needs, from strongest to weakest, that activates and directs behavior

  • Instinctoid needs- The natural needs in his needs-hierarchy theory; Needs in hierarchy are innate. However, behavior to satisfy needs is learned (environment)

  • Jonah complex-The fear that maximizing our potential will lead to a situation with which we will be unable to cope

  • Metamotivation-The motivation of self-actualizers, which involves maximizing personal potential rather than striving for a particular goal object.

  • Metaneeds-States of growth or being toward which self-actualizers evolve

  • Peak experience-A moment of intense ecstasy, similar to a religious or mystical experience, during which the self is transcended

 

     Key terms/Concepts

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School of Thought/ Perspective

Albert Maslow belonged in the humanistic school of thought/ perspective. This perspective has to do with the opinion that humans are free-willed and have the potential for personal growth. They are also very different from animals. Maslow was one of the most important contributors to this school of thought.

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Experimentation 

Contributions

Research

Experiments:

  • Most well known for conducting an experiment about the emotional attachment behavior of baby rhesus monkeys

  • Rest of experiments had inconclusive (exploratory) results

Research:

  • He conducted research on human sexuality

  • He researched human behavior and how important some actions are compared to others, like communication

  • He researched what is most needed in life

  • Maslow also researched historical figures and their self- acutalization

Contributions:

  • Maslow made the hierarchy of basic needs, which has been a major help to psychologsts all throughout history

  • He popularized the term self- acutalization

  • He concluded that "Human beings have an innate tendency to move toward higher levels of health, creativity, insight, and self-fulfillment."

  • He said that neurosis was what blocked self acutalization

  • Maslow also contributed the fact that business efficieny does not have an impact on personal growth

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Unit Most Likely to Cover Psychologist

Albert Maslow's contributions would most likely appear in Chapter 10: Motivation and Emotion.

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