- 1) its at the top of the hierarchy and is the weakest of the needs, therefore it is easily impeded
2)people fear the kind of knowledge about themselves that self-actualization requires(Jonah Complex- fear of one\'s own greatness, evasion of one\'s destin - Why Self-Actualization is Not Universal
- 1) Perceive relaity accurately and fully
2)display greater accepatance of themselves, others, and of nature
3)exhibit spontaneity, simplicity, and naturalness
4)tend to be concerned w/ problems rather than themselves
5)quality of detachment and a nee - The 15 characteristics of Self-Actualizing people
- affects personal inner growth. Examples are beauty, truth, and justice
- being motivation
(also called growth motivation) - any process that distorts human nature and depicts it as less marvelous and dignified than it is
- Desacralize
- approach to psych that emphasizes the experiencing person, creativity, the study of socially and personally significant problems, and the dignity and enhancement of people
- Humanistic psychology
- arrangement of the needs from lowest to highest in terms of their potency
- Hierarchy of human needs
- complete cooperation or working together
- synergy
syn=together
ergy=working - group of needs that requires both recognition from other people that results in feelings of prestige, acceptance, status, and self-esteem that results in feelings of adequacy, competence, and confidence
- Esteem needs
(4th cluster)
*lack of satisfaction of these needs results in discouragement and feelings of inferiority - highest level in the hierarchy of needs, can only be reached if the preceding need levels have been adequately satsfied .
- Self-Actualization
*The self-actualizing individual operates at full capacity and is B-motivated rather than D-motivated - humanistic psychology, which was viewed by Maslow and others as an alternative to psychoanalysis and behaviorism
- Third-force psychology
- industrial or societal management that attempts to consider the basic human needs as Maslow viewed them
- Eupsychian management
- innate curiousity that Maslow believed was functionally related to the ability to satisfy all human needs
- Desire to know and understand
- Maslow\'s name for the Utopia that he believed a community of healthy adults could create (complete synergy)
- Eupsychia
Eu=good
psych=mind
ia=country - moments of intense B-cognition cause feelings of ecstast or rapture. (mystic, oceanic feelings)
- peak experiences
- most basic cluster of needs in the hierarchy, includes: the needs for water, food, oxygen, sleep, elimination and sex
- Physiological needs
(first cluster of hierarchy, at bottom) - need for order, symmetry, closure, structure, and completion. Believed by Maslow to be instinctoid and are fully expressed in self-actualizing individuals
- Aesthetic needs
- perception motivated by a search for objects or events that will satisfy a basic need; hungry person
---> food - need-directed perception
(also called D-perception/ cognition) - psychology that examines the human relationship to the cosmos or to something \"bigger than we are\" and the mystical, spiritual, or peak experiences that the realization of such a relationship produces
- Transpersonal psychology (4th force psychology)
- results when there is a failure to satisfy a metaneed (B-value)
- Metapathology
- retreat to escape anxiety (India)
- ashram
- strategy of studying an object of interest as a totality rather than attempting to reduce it to its component parts
- Holistic-analytic approach to science
*Maslow believed in this approach - the needs for friends and companions, a supportive family, identification w/ a group and an intimate relationship
(3rd cluster) - Belongingness and Love needs
- the needs for structure, order, security, and predictability. Goal is to reduce uncertainty in his/ her life.
- Safety needs
*2nd cluster up from the bottom in the hierarchy
*usually seen in children b/c they typically show great fear when faced w/ unpredicatable events - The non-actualizing person\'s life is governed by these and are influenced by the absence of such things as food, love, or esteem.
- Deficiency motives (D-motives)
- The self-actualizing person\'s life is governed by these
- Being values/ B-values (also called metamotives)
- the spiritual teacher of an ashram
- guru
- thinking or perceiving that is governed by B-values rather than by D-motives. Such cognition is richer and fuller than D-cognition
- Being cognition
- western version of an Indian ashram
- growth center
