Abraham Maslow: Man of Many Ideas

In another class during this semester we learned about a very interesting person in life who brought some great theologies to the world. This man Abraham Maslow was a great guy and gives great understang and can show people different ways of how the human beings come to evolve. Abraham Harold Maslow was born on April 1, 1908 and later died on june 8 of 1970. He is noted for his conception of the Hierarchy of Needs. He was an American psychologist and was considered the founder of humanistic psychology. He was born and raised in brooklyn, went to the city college of New York. Then later on went to the University of Wisconsin, and then went further on to research more at Columbia University. Maslow saw human beings' needs, more like a ladder or stepping stone. The most basic needs are at the bottom, like the physical needs such as air, water, food, sleep. Then the safety needs like security, stability then psychological or social needs like for belonging, love, and acceptance. At the top of it all were the self-actualizing needs, the need to fulfill oneself, and to become who we want to be. Malsow felt that the needs we grow with be lower on the chart then the needs that are part of us growing older and finding, more like a ladder to climb to the next step.The first four levels of the pyramid are said to be the growing levels were we don’t feel anything if they are met, but if we don’t meet the needs we feel as if we have to. The other level is where a person finds differences and motivates us further. The base of the pyramid is formed by the physiological needs. It includes the needs of food, water, air, and sleep. These are more like the essentials of life in order for us to live. The needs in this level are the basics of life and are used by every human. Once the physiological needs are met, we can go on to the next level of safety and security.