Abraham maslow biography and theory of plateau
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1) His Biography:
American psychologist Abraham Maslow created a hierarchy of needs to describe human motivation. His theory held that before moving up the hierarchy to pursue more social, emotional, and self-actualizing needs, people have a set of basic needs that must be satisfied.
Abraham Maslow was the first of his Jewish parents’ seven children to be born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he was born on April 1, 1908. His parents had immigrated from Russia. Later, Maslow recalled his early years as being miserable and lonely. He was engrossed in books and spent a lot of time in the library. Maslow attended City College of New York to study law (CCNY). He transferred to the University of Wisconsin after becoming interested in psychology and met Harry Harlow, a mentor who acted as his PhD advisor. The University of Wisconsin is where Maslow obtained his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in psychology.
Brooklyn College hired Abraham Maslow as
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Abraham Maslow, ranked among the greatest American psychologists of the 20th century, pioneered the scientific study of peak-experiences. These are sudden moments of intense happiness and self-fulfillment, often accompanied by feelings of gratitude, enhanced self-worth, and awe—and, as he accurately hypothesized— are often life-changing in their impact.
In Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences, Maslow metaphorically wrote, "A single glimpse of heaven is enough to confirm its existence... Even one such experience might be able to prevent suicide, and perhaps many varieties of slow self-destruction [like] alcoholism, drug addiction, and addiction to violence."
Maslow also found that emotionally healthy people—especially those whom he called self-actualizing—generally have far more "peaks" than average in everyday life. Why? Apparently, because they're more open to new experiences, more curious, and less guarded in their relationships. This discovery led him to one of his mo
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Abraham Maslow
American psychologist (1908–1970)
Abraham Harold Maslow (MAZ-loh; April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.[1] Maslow was a psychology professor at Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, New School for Social Research, and Columbia University. He stressed the importance of focusing on the positive qualities in people, as opposed to treating them as a "bag of symptoms".[2] A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Maslow as the tenth most cited psychologist of the 20th century.[3]
Biography
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[edit]Born in 1908 and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Maslow was the oldest of seven children. His parents were first-generation Jewish immigrants from Kiev, then part of the Russian Empire (now Kyiv, Ukraine), who fled fro