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= Abraham Maslow  "We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves,   but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves"  =

College Professor  April 1, 1908 - June 8, 1970  **Psychological Perspective** He believed in the "Humanistic" perspective of psychology. As you will read later in the article, most of the work that he did was based on physical and psychological human needs, which makes it evident that he thought this way. **Schooling** He studied Law at the City College of New York for three semesters to satisfy his parents, and then transferred to Cornell, and then back again. Soon after, he married Bertha Goodman, his first cousin, and both of them decided to move to Wisconsin, where he grew an interest of and started taking classes for Psychology at the University of Wisconsin. He received his Bachelor's degree in 1930, his Master's degree in 1931, and his PhD in 1934, all in Psychology. **Three Major Accomplishments** 1. He developed a basic human hierarchy of needs 2. He created a general theory of the characteristics of self-actualized people 3. He made many contributions to the founding of the humanistic psychology movement **Two Other Accomplisments** 1. Founded the American Association for Humanistic Psychology 2. Was very inspirational in theories of personality and behavior

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