ABRAHAM MASLOW

Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist. He is a well known scientist. Maslow is considered as the “Father of Humanistic psychology“. He was one of the pioneers of the “Motivation Theories” and known with his “Hierarchy of Needs” theory. He developed a hierarchical model of human motivation. His best work for psychology was the “hierarchy of human needs” which makes him successful and famous. He categorized all the needs of human in a pyramid system. Maslow’s pyramid places the strongest needs at the bottom and the weakest needs at the top. There are three kinds of needs for Maslow. These needs are “conative needs”, “cognative needs” and “aesthetic needs”. He also has the “neurotic needs” but they are not included in the pyramid. Food ,air ,food, air, water ,sleep are at the first level of the pyramid called “psychological needs”. Second level consists of “safety needs. The second level includes socialization. family, identification with a group, good relationships with others. The next level
feed from the recognition form other people, feeling prestige, status and self-esteem which concludes with confidence form the “safety needs”. At the final level, we encounter the “self-actualization” which is a synthesis of morality, creativity, spontaneity.

References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow
http://www.businessballs.com/maslow.htm
http://www.netmba.com/mgmt/ob/motivation/maslow/