Evaluate Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs

In 1943 Abraham Maslow created Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology that is a model of five human needs. It consists of self-actualization, esteem needs, belongingness and love needs, safety needs, and physiological needs. These five needs can be described as our basic, psychological, and self- fulfillment needs. The five needs are often divided into deficiency and growth needs. Our deficiency needs are the first four levels of Maslow’s model. Deficiency needs are claimed to motivate people when they are not met. Everyone has the desire to meet these lower level needs and some want to meet more and move on to the growth or higher level needs, which is the top fifth level. Certain …show more content…
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a good example of this process. The first need we meet is our physiological need, which is our basic survival needs, like food, water, and rest. The next level on the pyramid is our safety needs. Our safety need can be described as our need for protection. Our belongingness and love need covers our need for friendships and intimate relationships.Feeling accomplished in one’s self fulfils our esteem need. Lastly at the top of the pyramid we have our self-actualization need, which encompasses us reaching our full potential. In order to reach our final need we must first start at the bottom and work our way up. For instance the way we go to school, we start in pre-school and work our way up all the while improving, and acquiring new skills. We can not just automatically start in high school we must first accomplish and learn the basics. I believe that is how we meet the needs we have, one level at a time. You can not work on your belongingness and love needs if your physiological needs are not met. How can you focus on building relationships if you have no food or water? It is hard for someone to develop relationships with others if they do not feel safe and are living in fear from others, because they have not met their safety need. Also, just because you have fulfilled these needs does not mean you will not have to fulfill them once …show more content…
The longer we go without meeting a need the more motivated we become to achieve it. People meet these needs in a step by step process. Survival motivates us all to meet our most basic needs.Some stop once they have meet the mower needs but those motivated by more than just survival work to accomplish more of our needs., and reach their full potential. These needs are met in a sequential order and sometimes need to be repeated. Our ever changing environment and the different stages we go through throughout our life causes us to have to repeat some of these steps throughout our