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Vernon Johnson
Douglass and other brilliant minds at the time. He also studied the
a person act the way they do and how there brain responds when there
being goes through starting from top to bottom with more basic needs
Based on the theory the most fundamental and basic four layers of the
pyramid contain what Maslow called deficiency needs. The four basic
layers are esteem, friendship and love, security, and physical needs. If
these needs arent met then the person will become anxious or tense.
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needs and those are the physical requirements for human survival. It
then states that if the requirements are not met the human body will
things there body will begin to shut down. These are considered
feeling physicaly self but mentally safe as well. The author says that
people need personal security, and financial security as well. Anotehr
safety that is often overlooked is job security. The way the world is set
up you have to have some sort of income in order to live. With that
responces based on job security. When a person loses ther job there
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feeling of belongingness can override the need for safety and can
the article you learn that all humans have a part in there brain that
revelant and can hinder a person from obtaining a higher level of self-
esteem or to even feel good about ones self. That ties into self
confidence which all people are born with but sometimes have trouble
and helplessness.
starts this section off with What a man can be, he must be. The is
powerful and already gives us a sense of what his theory towards what
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the most that one can be. Thoough we are all human we all differ in
have our indvidiualalitys and Maslow sates that it come form our early
expiernces and our brain takes a snap shot and remembers for the
future. For example when you see something on tv that interests you
whether you realize or not your mind keeps it tucked in the back of
care about it more and want to accel in it. A way to thing about it is a
job vs a career. Often times a career is based off of something that you
want to do and excel in. A job is just used to survive and thats the
detailed. Though it was difficult to read at times and took a lot of re-
that was given. What I dont agree with was how he only focused his
research on the brilliant minds of his time and the top 1 percent of
correct. All and all this was a great topic and I was able to learn more
about the brain and how your body reacts to things that you wouldnt
even notice.
Bibliography
A theory of Human Motivation