Abraham Maslow's arrangement of needs in the order of their motivational priority, ranging from physiological needs to the needs for self- actualization and transcendence. (378)
a theory of motivation that suggests a person will satisfy lower-level needs before attempting to satisfy higher-level needs; in sequential stages, a person will satisfy his or her physiological needs first, and then, in order, his or her safety needs, love and belongingness needs, esteem needs and, finally, self-actualization (self-fulfillment) needs. A theory of psychologist Abraham Maslow.
Maslow's rank order of needs that motivate human behavior. (443)
A ranking of basic needs such as food and shelter, which all people need for mere survival, to satisfactions, to higher level wants such as intellectual stimulation. These form a pyramid, with satisfaction of lower level needs occurring prior to higher level.
the suggestion that more or less all of us are motivated by the same set of needs and that, as we mature psychologically and to the extent that our circumstances allow, we all progress up a hierarchy of needs by first fulfilling ‘lower-order' needs such as physiological and safety needs to the point where our behaviour is increasingly motivated by ‘higher-order' psychological needs, such as the need to ‘self-actualize' fulfil our potential as human beings. Though an extremely influential idea and often taught as if it were true, there is actually very little strong empirical evidence for the existence of such a hierarchy.
A psychology theory ascribed to Abraham H. Maslow in which he proposed that people will constantly seek to have their basic needs (sleep, food, water, shelter, etc.) fulfilled and that such needs ultimately determine behavior
According to Maslow and other adherents of the humanistic approach, human needs are arranged in a hierarchy with physiological needs such as hunger at the bottom, safety needs further up, the need for attachment and love still higher, and the desire for esteem yet higher. At the very top of the hierarchy is the striving for self-actualization. By and large, people will only strive for the higher-order needs when the lower ones are fulfilled. See also peak experience, self-actualization.
Maslow?s way of classifying needs and motives, ascending from basic biological needs to a peak of self-actualization, supposedly the highest human motive.
