Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Annabelle Parish

Abraham Maslow created Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. He was a professor of psychology. Maslow created this pyramid after research and studies from his work. This pyramid can be found in films, in some cases very clearly and in some others not as clearly. It is used to help with the character developments throughout films, for example Forrest Gump. It can also be understood that the people who would associate more with the green and blue( top two levels) are more likely to be using and linked to the media.

Physiological The first level of the pyramid is the physiological stage. This

is the level at the bottom of the pyramid so it can be classed as the base level of the hierarchy. Within this level before anyone can develop and move onto higher up levels they need to establish each of the different factors in the level. Some of these are breathing, food, water, sleep, homeostasis and excretion. For this level all of the factors come naturally to a person for example when a baby is born it automatically knows and understands how to excrete. After these factors have mostly to all been established there could also be feelings that can be leaning towards generating a family after the people start feeling content at that level in the pyramid. Before anyone can move onto higher levels they must have secured and established all factors successfully.

Safety The second level of the pyramid is safety. This

level includes factors such as security of body so that they can start to feel confident within their self as well. Resources, so that they can go out and collect items and products that can help protect them so that they can survive. Morality, meaning people will understand the meaning between right and wrong in all situations. Family, meaning that after spending time with people overtime the feelings will start to generate of wanting a family and to reproduce. Other factors can include health and property.

Love/ Belonging The third level in the hierarchy pyramid is

Love/Belonging. The factors within this layer include friendship which means the start of building up relationships for companionship. Family, which can be the creation of youth as well as finding the people they want to spend a lot of time with and be close with. And finally sexual intimacy. The bottom three to four lower levels of the hierarchy pyramid are known as deficiency needs as they are needs that are more basic and will be a lot easier for larger numbers of people to access.

Esteem The fourth level of the pyramid is the esteem level.

The factors of this level are self esteem, confidence, achievement, respect for others and respect by others. All of these factors are there to help with self value as they are all factors that will take time to develop and strengthen with the time it takes for each one different for each individual making it more of a personal achievement and challenge when developing throughout the level. As the levels in the pyramid increase they become more important, as well as becoming harder and taking longer to achieve a successful result because they involve more difficult developments.

Self- actualization• The top level of the Maslow’s pyramid is the self-

actualization level. The different factors of the top level include morality, which is having and example of self respect. Creativity, which is allowing self expression and value. Other options include spontaneity, problem solving, lack of prejudice and acceptance of facts. The prejudice factor is included with in this top layer of the pyramid because it can become proven that people who are more educated are more likely to be associated with this layer allowing them to have a larger chance of not being or being less prejudice because education provides people with a broader view on on the world and different specific situations meaning they can appear to be less prejudice.