...Maslow’s concept of peak experiences in daily life. Description In this reflective journal I am going to describe and evaluate concept of “peak experiences” which was developed by Maslow. According to Maslow (1971), peak experience is an unexpected feeling of extreme joy, prosperity, loss of fear and euphoria. Peak experience is an essential part of our life that leads us to a meaningful and satisfying life. Such events can happen anywhere and any time even during listening to music, cooking or doing sport activity (Maslow, 1962). As for me, in this journal I will share one of my daily activities that can be described as a peak experience. Interpretation To begin with, there are three characteristics of peak experience: significance, fulfillment and spiritual (Privette, 2001). From my point of view, it is important to know each of the characteristics to understand what peak experience is and why it is important. First of all, significance means that peak experience allows people to see things differently, from new perspective and his personal awareness starts to increase (Maslow, 1970). That can lead to serious changes in person’s life. Secondly, by fulfillment it is understood that peak experiences always make positive emotions and help to achieve a certain goal. Finally, people sometimes can not sense the time and they feel disorientated due to connection with the world at once. This is spiritual kind of peak experience. For me, the significant experience was when...
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...Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology, proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology, all of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans. Maslow studied what he called exemplary people such as Albert Einstein, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass rather than mentally ill or neurotic people, writing that "the study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy." Maslow studied the healthiest 1% of the college student population. Maslow's theory was fully expressed in his 1954 book Motivation and Personality. Maslow is a humanistic psychologist. Humanists do not believe that human beings are pushed and pulled by mechanical forces, either of stimuli and reinforcements or of unconscious instinctual impulses. Humanists focus upon potentials. They believe that humans strive for an upper level of capabilities. Humans seek the frontiers of creativity, the highest reaches of consciousness and wisdom. This has been labeled "fully functioning person", "healthy personality", or as Maslow calls this level, "self-actualizing person." Maslow has set up a hierarchic theory of needs. All of his basic needs are instinctual, equivalent of instincts in animals. Humans start with...
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...Maslow – Holistic Dynamic Theory Holistic Dynamic Theory assumes that the whole person is continually being motivated by one need or another and that people have the potential to grow toward psychological health, that is, self actualization. To attain self actualization, people must satisfy lower level needs such as hunger, safety, love, and esteem. Only after they are relatively satisfied in each of these needs can they reach self-actualization. It is often called the third force in psychology. Biography • Had a dissatisfying childhood • Poor performance in school • Classroom experiences with great teachers in psychology including Harlow, Titchner, Ruth Benedict, Max Wertheimer and, Alfred Adler, Julian Rotter, and Kurt Goldstein • Personal life was filled with pain and ill health. He was shy, unhappy, isolated, and self-rejecting • Died of a heart attack in 1970 Maslow’s view of Motivations • First, the approach is holistic, meaning that not any single part or function is motivated • Motivation is usually complex, meaning that a person’s behavior may spring from several separate motives. • People are continually motivated by one need or another. When one need is satisfied, it ordinarily loses its motivational power and is then replaced by another need • All people everywhere are motivated by the basic needs. The manner in which people of different cultures obtain food, build shelters, express friendship...
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...effectiveness of the model by providing two examples, first one is Samsung galaxy tab3 and second one is Watsons Water . Moreover, examine both pros & cons of the model. MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS A clinical psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed one influence approach, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in 1943. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a method of classifying human needs and motivations into five categories in ascending importance: psychological, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualization. As a person fulfill one need, a higher level need becomes more important. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is often portrayed in the shape of a pyramid with the largest, most fundamental levels of needs at the bottom and the need for self-actualization at the top. Steere, B. F. (1988). The lowest level of the pyramid was the most basic needs; the most complex need was located at the top of the pyramid: Based on Maslow, people must fulfill the lower-level of needs before processing on to meet the higher-level of needs. The need of level 1-4 is identify as deficiency needs, which means these needs arise from deprivation. Maslow proposed the highest level, self-actualization as growth need; people reach their maximum potential as a human being. Maslow proposed individual are motivated to achieve lower-level needs, for example hungry and...
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...ABRAHAM MASLOW Born April1,1908 Abraham Maslow was the oldest of seven children born to his parents in Brooklyn New York. Feeling pressure from his parents to achieve academic greatness, Abraham went through early childhood with few friends. Focusing mainly on his studies Maslow had a quiet and unfulfilling adolescence. Abraham started off his college career by attending city college in New York were he began to study law, as his father had wanted him to do. He soon lost interest and transferred to the University of Wisconsin and studied psychology. Here Maslow received, in 1934, his Ph.D. During his college career Abraham married his cousin Bertha Goodman, his parents did not approve of the union and were saddened by it . While Maslow was at Wisconsin he met a man named Harry Harlow, Harlow had a great affect on Maslow and his thinking . Another one of Maslows role models was E.L Thorndike who got him interested in human sexuality. Abraham took a job at Brooklyn College ,it is here were he took interest in humanistic psychology. And developed his theory on the “Hierarchy of Needs”, and the idea of self-actualization. Maslow would go on to be one of the greatest humanistic and behavioral psychologists to date. Trying to get up that great big hill hope for his destination Abraham Maslow created the hierarchy of needs. Which takes us from basic physical needs to self -actualization. Maslow believed each person was born with his or hers mental, creative , and social potential. It...
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...INTRODUCTION Abraham Harold Maslow was born April 1, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the first of seven children born to his parents, who themselves were uneducated Jewish immigrants from Russia. His parents, hoping for the best for their children in the new world, pushed him hard for academic success. Not surprisingly, he became very lonely as a boy, and found his refuge in books. To satisfy his parents, he first studied law at the City College of New York (CCNY). He moved to Wisconsin so that he could attend the University of Wisconsin. Here, he became interested in psychology, and his school work began to improve dramatically. He spent time there working with Harry Harlow, who is famous for his experiments with baby rhesus monkeys and attachment behavior. During the 1950s, Maslow became one of the founders and driving forces behind the school of thought known as humanistic psychology. His theories including the hierarchy of needs, self-actualization and peak experiences became fundamental subjects in the humanist movement. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs states that we must satisfy each need in return, starting with the first, which deals with the most obvious needs for survival itself. So, we decided to do a research on Self actualization’s need. Each of us is motivated by needs. Our most basic needs are inborn, having evolved over tens of thousands of years. Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs helps to explain how these motivates us all. Maslow’s original Hierarchy...
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...Abraham Maslow Maslow thought that people are driven to accomplish specific goals. Once a goal is met the person will then move onto the next goal. He developed the hierarchy of needs which included five motivational needs. The five stages can be separated into the basic needs of a person and also their growth needs. Maslow thought that basic needs are met to motivate people and empower them to go the duration required to meet the goals at hand. He also taught simple things like the longer a person goes without food they will become increasingly hungry. The hierarchy of needs has the levels and was taught to believe that the lower level of needs must be met before going on to higher growth needs. Once the needs have been met fully or the person is satisfied with where they are at they reach self-actualization. It is believed that everyone can reach the point of self-actualization. Maslow thought that even though everyone was capable of reaching that level it is usually disrupted by failure to meet the lower level needs. Maslow also stated that only one in one hundred people become fully self-actualized because our society rewards motivation primarily based on esteem, love, and other social needs. Hoffman, E. (1988). The right to be human: A biography of Abraham Maslow. Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc. Maslow’s formulated the headachy of needs by taking the qualitative method with is called biographical analysis. He would study the writings and biographies of people that he thought...
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...contributions to humanistic psychology, and his most famous work, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, and how it works. Maslow’s contributions is still an important cornerstone of psychology today. Maslow was born on August 1, 1908 in New York to uneducated Jewish immigrants from Russia (www.webspace.ship.edu, 2015). His parents pushed him hard academically and Maslow was often pushed to excel in areas he had no interest in. His father also degraded him by calling him ugly and impacting his self-image, and his mother, who wanted to keep him under her control (www.muskingum.edu, 2015) This led to him seeking refuge and contentment in books. He went to the City College of New York and Cornell...
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...Abraham Maslow is a great theory that can describes the woman from the case study. Maslow’s hierarchy explains how the woman stepping stones are needed in order to face and change her feelings of anxiety and panic. The last tear of the pyramid shows the hierarchy ability to express physiological needs. These needs include the need to satisfy hunger and thirst (Stangor, 2010. P. 345). Next on the pyramid is the safety needs. These needs include the need to feel that the world is organized and predictable, the need to feel safe, secure, and stable (Stangor, 2010. P. 345). It seems to me that this would be the place to start while working with the woman in the case study. The client in this study has recently moved to a different state where everything is different and unknowledgeable. She no longer has the safety of her friends and extended family around her to support her. The main goal of this physiological problem to be manageable one would need to find a way to help her feel safe in her new surroundings. Relaxation, watching television, swimming and excising are what a person who suffered from anxiety can use for healing. Once she has overcome her fear of the new environment she can meet and greet friends give parties and get acquainted with individuals who are hungry for love and thirst. She might be more comfortable with her surroundings, and her safety need would be met.Next on the pyramid is love and belonging. This includes the need to love and be loved, to belong...
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...The Humanistic Theory of Abraham Maslow Linda Cooper Psychology 210 Abraham Maslow was born April 1, 1908 in Brooklyn New York. Although his parents were uneducated Jewish immigrants from Russia, they pushed him to excel academically. Without the approval of his parents, Maslow married his first cousin Bertha Goodman and they had two daughters. After studying law at the City College of New York, Maslow and his family moved to Wisconsin where both Maslow and Bertha attended the University of Wisconsin. Abraham Maslow received his BA, MA, and his PhD in psychology from the University of Wisconsin. After graduation, Maslow moved back to New York to begin his teaching career at Brooklyn College. During this time Maslow served as the chair of the psychology department with a German-Jewish physician and psychiatrist named Kurt Goldstein. Goldstein was the originator of the idea of self-actualization. Inspired by Kurt Goldstein’s idea of self-actualization, Maslow began his studies on humanistic psychology. Maslow’s influences also included psychologist Harry Harlow, Alfred Adler, Max Wertheimer and anthropologist Ruth Benedict (Soylent Communications, 2012). Abraham Maslow was a psychologist and a humanistic theorist who was well known for his views on human motivation. During his studies on human motivations and humanistic psychology Maslow developed the Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. The hierarchy of needs theory is designed in the form of a pyramid. The pyramid is divided into...
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...Abraham Maslow and Nursing Abraham Maslow and Nursing Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs has a lot to offer the field of nursing. As a theorist of humanistic psychology, Maslow adopted a more holistic-dynamic approach to the field (Hall, Lindzey & Campbell, 1998). He was born on April 1, 1908. Growing up as a boy, his relationship with his parents was strained (Emrich, n.d.). He did research on primate behavior at the University of Wisconsin and later served as a faculty member of Brooklyn College and Brandeis University. The Laughlin Foundation made him a resident fellow in 1969. Maslow died of a heart attack on June 8, 1970 (Hall, Lindzey & Campbell, 1998). The interesting thing about Maslow is that he developed his theories as part of the so-called "Third Force" of psychology: humanistic psychology. This was a response to the prevailing schools of thought at the time (Hall, Lindzey & Campbell, 1998). For him, psychoanalysis and behaviorism provided such negative and mechanistic outlooks of the human person, respectively. Something was needed to provide a more holistic perspective of people in order to balance out the other two approaches. Thus, he became the spiritual father of the humanistic psychology movement and contributed his famous Hierarchy of Needs (Schultz & Schultz, 2000). Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs basically argues that people have an innate tendency to self-actualize—that is to move toward developing...
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...1987 Abraham Maslow developed a theory of personality that has influenced a number of different fields, including education. This wide influence is due in part to the high level of practicality of Maslow's theory. This theory accurately describes many realities of personal experiences. Many people find they can understand what Maslow says. They can recognize some features of their experience or behavior which is true and identifiable but which they have never put into words. Maslow is a humanistic psychologist. Humanists do not believe that human beings are pushed and pulled by mechanical forces, either of stimuli and reinforcements (behaviorism) or of unconscious instinctual impulses (psychoanalysis). Humanists focus upon potentials. They believe that humans strive for an upper level of capabilities. Humans seek the frontiers of creativity, the highest reaches of consciousness and wisdom. This has been labeled "fully functioning person", "healthy personality", or as Maslow calls this level, "self-actualizing person." Maslow has set up a hierarchic theory of needs. All of his basic needs are instinctoid, equivalent of instincts in animals. Humans start with a very weak disposition that is then fashioned fully as the person grows. If the environment is right, people will grow straight and beautiful, actualizing the potentials they have inherited. If the environment is not "right" (and mostly it is not) they will not grow tall and straight and beautiful. Maslow has set up a hierarchy...
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...Goals & Objectives Report Organizational Goals This report is prepared based on Biotherm Men. In 1970, L’Oreal acquired Biotherm as their luxury product market segment. Being in the luxury skin care industry, it is challenging to maintain market share amongst other namely brand competitors. Hence, this project’s major goal is to strengthen Biotherm in terms of increasing market share in the Australian market. To achieve our goals, our objective is to increase the awareness of our product and reposition Biotherm to assure that consumers know that Biotherm has the best quality products amongst its substitutes. Biotherm Men was the pioneer of the men’s skin care industry and it proclaims to men’s needs and satisfies them (Blanchin, A, 23rd May). Hence, this project will later focus on the sub-brand, Biotherm Men to achieve the goals. We believe that an increased share in Biotherm Men will increase the market share in Biotherm itself. The reason that we choose Biotherm Men over the other’s line is because the statistics stated that the market for skin care in Australia increased between 2001-2006, growing at an average annual rate of 1.2% and there is a potential opportunity for men’s cosmetic market since it is relatively new and growing (King, 2011). The fact that men’s skin is different to a women’s has created a demand for men’s skin treatment. Hill states, “In the past 7 years, there has been an 800 % growth in the sales of male toiletries, but the market is still...
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...Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is a theory created by a Abraham Maslow. It’s a theoretical idea about the progression of needs humans must meet to survive. There are five levels, the first being physiological needs, air, food and water, the second being safety needs. This is followed by needs for love, next needs for esteem and finally needs for self actualization. The idea is people cannot progress to each level unless they have successfully met the one before. In the book “A Long Way Gone” the main character Ishmael Beah experiences all five levels of the hierarchy of needs. Before the war, Ishmael is at the fourth level of needs, needs for esteem. However once the war reaches him he was brought down to the first level of physiological needs. Throughout the book Ishmael slowly works his way back up the hierarchy. The first level of Maslow’s hierarchy is physiological...
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...Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Theory of Personality Euphemia Cruz PSY/250 Dr. Karen Williams, Ph.D. 8/23/2012 Psychologist Abraham H. Maslow developed a theory of human motivation and personality known as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Maslow’s hierarchy attaches human behavior with the need to fulfill basic essentials for survival and growth. He first identified various categories of deficiency needs, known as “D-needs”, which are required for survival (FRIEDMAN & SCHUSTACK, 2012). Physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness and love needs, and esteem needs are all categorized as “D-needs”. Each of these “D-needs” motivates humans to fill a void and obtain homeostasis (FRIEDMAN & SCHUSTACK, 2012). For humans to function daily basic requirements such as water, food, and oxygen must be satisfied, and therefore placed at the base level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Much importance is placed on this level as these needs must be fulfilled before any other. Needs above the base level are considered less significant for actual survival and desired mostly for mental comfort and growth. These needs are directly stimulated through formal education, lifestyle, and experiences. As a result of placing human needs in levels of importance, a pyramid is usually depicted as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Physiological needs, basic requirements for human survival, are located at the base level of the pyramid. In addition to the basic requirements listed earlier, shelter...
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