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Cognitive needs
- Desire to know, to solve mysteries, to Instinctoid needs Noninstinctoid needs
understand, & to be curious
- Frustration of - Frustration of
- Pathology: skepticism, disillusionment and
cynicism need need no
pathology pathology
Neurotic needs - Persistent - Temporary
- For psychological - Not prereq for
- Leads to stagnation and pathology
health health
- Nonproductive - Species-specific
- Can be molded,
- Reactive
inhibited, or
General discussion of needs altered by
environmental
- low level need satisfied = emergence
influences
of next level need
- Many needs are
- May emerge gradually weaker than
cultural forces
- Simultaneous motivation of needs
Reverse order of needs
- Need are satisfied in reversed order Comparison of higher and lower needs
- May look reversed but unconscious needs - Similarities
are in orders
o Both higher and lower needs are
Unmotivated behavior Instinctoid
- Not all behaviors are motivated o Both biological
- Reflexes, maturation, or drugs - Differences
- Expressive behavior o Higher level needs are later on the
phylogenetic of evolutionary scale
Expressive and coping behavior
o Higher level needs produce more
- Expressive behavior
happiness and more peak experiences
o Unmotivated
Self-actualization
o Unconscious
Maslows quest for the self-actualizing person
o Mode of expression - Good human Beings
o No goal or aim - self-actualizing person
o Compulsive personality - Wertheimer & Benedict
o Unlearn, spontaneous, & determined - His student volunteered but none of them
by forces within the person matched the 2
- Coping behavior - Tried to find a vague personality syndrome
o Conscious effortful, learned, & - People believed to be self-actualizing
determined by the external refused to participate in his research
environment
- Began to read biographies
o Attempts to cope with environment
- What makes Wertheimer & Benedict self-
o Serves some goal or aim (may be actualizing? why are we all not self-
unconscious) actualizing
- Finding the characteristics to be self- - Satisfy other needs
actualizing why are we all not self-
actualizing - Embrace B-values
B-values 14.Creativeness)
2. Goodness Self-actualizer
7. Perfection
8. Completion The Jonah Complex