Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy Of Human Needs

Abraham Maslow was a man who contributed his time to understand a positive side of mental health. He studied about minds that bring people together and discovered how humans have needs and wants. Unlike others, he was interested in laboratory science and the experimental side as well. Maslow created his own hierarchy of basic needs which were psychological needs, safety and security, love and belonging and esteem needs. Psychologist all around the world look up to him as a great leader and psychologist (Boeree, 2006.)

​Maslow was born in Brooklyn NY on April 1, 1908 and died in 1970 in California from a heart attack. He was the first born out of the seven children his mother had. As he grew up he married his first cousin Bertha Goodman and

they had two daughters together. Maslow had a rough childhood coming from a Jewish family, he wasn’t close to his mother neither was he with his father (Kunkel, 1989.) Although his relationship with his family was rocky, they encouraged him to strive hard to be successful. He successfully went to City College of New York to study law, knowing that he wasn’t interested in law it was a decision his father made for him, he decided to go back to college to gain his PhD for psychology. Maslow worked and studied about nature and explanations on why human beings are the way they are. Abraham worked with monkeys in the beginning of his career. His experiments on learning brought him to the attention of his profession.
He made his own hierarchy of needs which were based off of psychology needs, safety and security, love and belonging needs, and self-esteem needs. The psychological needs are referred to as oxygen and water. Safety and security needs are being safe and secure. The love and belonging needs is when you feel the need for love and affection also children and stability in a relationship. Last but not least, self-esteem needs are making sure you feel loved by yourself and respected by yourself (Boeree, 2006.) Abraham contributed to early childhood education and felt that belonging needs was a definite factor for children in school and that all children are equally welcome to be a part of the class. Maslow’s major goal was for students to fulfill needs and to be prepared and trained to become higher-level needs. He believed that the highest level and self-actualization was some of his main goals to pursue a definite understanding of mindsets and the potential a persons have. (Education.com, 2013.)
​Maslow’s early laboratory experiments were based on his academic psychology. The urgent need for self-esteem is one of the needs for basic human needs. He figured that these needs are definitely arranged in his hierarchy’s distinction. The few terms that Maslow uses continually is motive and need. According to Maslow a need refers to something that is present for a person’s well-being. As for motives it is psychological appetencies (Kunkel, 1989.) Maslow noticed that people are more interested in their reputation than love or their family. Self-Esteem is being self-reliant, having self-respect, confidence, competence, and success (Tribe, 1970.)
Abraham Maslow created hierarchy of needs which express the elements that were not actualized.

He had many concerns; he believed that every human being and certainty in newborns is an active will toward health, growth, and actualization. Maslow came up with five different needs, starting with the first one “The Physiological needs”. This includes food, water, shelter, sex, and sleep. He believes that physical needs should enhance your health, energy, euphoria, and physical contentment. He also believes that receptors and effectors are the intelligence, memory, and habit of hunger-gratifying tools (Tribe, 1970.) Another major essential that human beings need is “Safety Needs”. This particular need is based on security, stability, dependency, protection, freedom from fair, anxiety, and chaos. According to Maslow this statement came out to be true. He speaks about how children come into play and seem to strive better under a system that has a set schedule and routine (Tribe,

p51.)
The next one he believed in was belongingness and love needs, this indicated that persons will greed for hunger for affectionate relations with another person. And in a group or family they will strive for the intensity to achieve their goals. But there are also love for family members and friends not only with relationships. He believes that healthy love is greatness and can benefit a person physically, mentally, and emotionally. He also described “The Esteem-Needs” this indicated that people need stability, confidence and self-respect, this can change a person’s view on life and his/or herself. Last but not least that is very important is “The Need of Self-Actualization”. People who are not motivated by safety, love and belonging, and self-esteem are because they have already been satisfied according to (Tribe, p56.)
Maslow has a different view on how he approaches psychological problems.

Maslow is an outgoing thinker and that brought him too many conclusions in his life. His concerns on improving mankind took him from philosophy to psychology. He had a motivation theory that he came about with in 1942. He also had a journal that he created in the 1950’s, few of his quotes was “A teacher is a man who shares with others what he does seriously for himself”. “A philosopher is a man who tries to find out [so is any scientist, any intellectual]”. He had a broad mindset on how he thinks teachers and philosophers are (Lowry, 1957.) Maslow began teaching at Brooklyn College in 1937 for fourteen years; he was influenced by Psychologist Max Wertheimer and Anthropologist Ruth Benedict. He mostly contributed to human nature but then switch to positive sides of mental health (Cherry,

2013.)
Later on in his studies Abraham Maslow was aware of his theory about the “Best of Humanity”. He knew some of his best traits were: love and compassion, creativity, ethics, spirituality, and self-actualization. Till this day many psychologist use some of his methods and loves his broad mindsets. He is an outgoing intelligent man that contributed a lot of his time in teaching and studying psychology within a human being.