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Abraham Maslow

**(1908-1970)**  **Humanistic Psychologist and Professor**   ** " ** You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety." = Cognitive Perspective = === Abraham Maslow believed that humans are seperated from lower animals because they recognize their desire to reach their full potential and that each individual unique. His beliefs are considered a humanistic approach because of the fact that he viewed people as basically good and that they strive to be all that they can be. === = ﻿Education =

===Even though Maslow’s parents didn’t have any education of any kind, he followed his parent’s forceful wishes and had an education. First of his other seven siblings in the family he started to feel very lonely. So to keep him self occupied he took a huge interest into many books. Maslow wanted to satisfy his mother and father, so he went to City College of New York or CCNY and had his first studies in law. By the third semester at CCNY, Maslow switched over to Cornell. But not satisfied with Cornell he went back to CCNY. After getting married to his first cousin Bertha Goodman and having two daughters, they moved to Wisconsin. Maslow then attended the University of Wisconsin, were he became very involved with psychology. In 1930 he acquired his BA, and in ’31 his MA. Then in ’34 his PhD, all of them in the field of psychology. About a year after he graduated from the University of Wisconsin he returned to New York and began a study in human sexuality. While back in New York he met Ruth Benedict an anthropologist and Max Wertheimer a psychologist. Maslow spent his time studying both of them. And with his studies on these two colleagues he began to think about human behavior of the mind, which was a very untouched field of study.=== = Accomplishments =
 * 1) ===**Organized Human needs into a hiearchy titled "Maslow's Theory of the Hierarchy of Needs". The idea behind this hierchy was that once a person acheived a level of needs they strived to achieve the next level of needs.**===
 * 2) ===**Major texts written by Maslow included Motivation and Personality(1954) and Toward a Psychology of Being(1962). These texts further explore his hiarchy of needs and describe how a person may acheive satisfaction in each level. It goes through all of the levels of his hierarchy all the way to the last titled "Self-Actualazation." **===
 * 3) ===Helped develop the psychology concentrated on the self titled Humanistic Psychology. ===

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 * 1) ===The last need on Maslow's Hierarchy of needs was self-actualazation. This was a contribution all on its own because it was a new idea to be coming truely happy. Part of being an idividual who has achieved self-actualazation meant having many special traits. Some of these traits are being reality centered, having different perceptions on means and ends, enjoyment of solitude, enjoyment of deeper relations with less people then shallow ones with many people, having an unhostile sense of humor, having strong ethics, and complet acceptance and respect for themselves and others. ===
 * 2) ===Maslow's Humanistic approach was new because it brought about a new aspect of psychology and new theories taking the place, for some, of the behaviorists approach.===

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