Psychological Needs 1
Psychological Needs
Dominic Valdez
PSY/211
10/03/13
Joseph Balistocky
Psychological Needs 2
Psychological Needs
Abraham Maslow’s was a motivational theorist who believed that there are several levels
of needs a person must meet before achieving the highest level of personal fulfillment. This theory
explains that when we are preoccupied with the needs of the lower levels of necessities, we will
not be able to focus on a the higher in level of needs. He has formed a pyramid of his hierarchy of
needs in a pyramid form.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs has been represented as a pyramid with the most basic needs
for survival at the bottom and highest needs at the top of the pyramid. Maslow describes, as the
bottom of the pyramid, the necessities would be your psychological needs example hunger, thirst,
fatigue, sex, etc. The second step would be your safety needs such as the to secure and safe and
