Abraham Maslow was a psychologist who founded humanistic psychology. He was born in 1908 in Brooklyn, New York to immigrant parents from Russia. He studied psychology at the City College of New York, Cornell University, and the University of Wisconsin. Maslow is best known for proposing a hierarchy of needs in which people are motivated to fulfill basic physiological needs before moving on to more advanced needs for safety, belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization. He taught at several universities and became president of the American Psychological Association in 1967. Maslow died of a heart attack in 1970 at age 62 while jogging around his swimming pool.

1. CONTENT
• BIOGRAPHY
• CONCEPT OF HIERARCHY
OF NEEDS
Theories of personality
Duane P. Schultz

2. Abraham Maslow
FOUNDER & LEADER OF
HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY
MOVEMENT

3. BIOGRAPHY
Oldest of seven
children.
1908 in Brooklyn , New
York.
Immigrants : Russia to
(Europe)New York.
Belong to poor family
but valued education.
Miserable Family &
Horrible creature.

4. EDUCATION
SCHOOL : Grades remained
mediocre.
College : City College Of New
York.
University: 1927 , Cornell
University.
1928 , Wisconsin to study
Psychology.

5. Marriage
His cousin, she joined him at
Wisconsin. (bertha)
He was 20y and she was 19y.
Birth of his first child & world
war-II. (Aan and Allen)

6. Teaching
1934, Ph.D. from UW, then he went to
Columbia University for a postdoctoral
fellowship under EL. Thorndike.
Later teach in Brooklyn college until
1951.
Karen horney, Alferd alder, Max
Wertheimer.

7. World war effects
1941, world war
changed his life.
Devoted himself to
developing a PSY based
on human ideals.
Work to improve
human personality
Displaying better
behavior than prejudice
& hate

8. REPUTATION
1951 – 69, taught in Brandeis Uni
Massachusetts.
Work on philosophy of politics,
economics, ethics based on.
Become popular in psycology.
President of American psy
association in 1967.

9. DEATH
1970, due to heart attack.
While jogging around his
swimming pool.
An exercise that had been
recommended by his cardiologist

10. HIERARCHY OF NEEDS (PERSONALITY
DEVELOPMENT)

11. HIERARCHY OF NEEDS
• "Basic needs or Physiological needs" of a human being:
food, water, sleep, sex, homeostasis, and excretion.
(INSTICTS)
• The next level is "Safety Needs: Security, Order, and
Stability“
• The third level of need is "Love and Belonging",

12. SELF ESTEEM
• It refers to an individual's sense of his or her value or
worth.
• Two forms of needs for esteem.
• Feeling of self worth (respect from ourselves) & from
people in the form of status ,social success.
• It allows us to feel confident of our strength.
• Lack of confidence , discouraged.