The active vocabulary of the Unit

Pre-reading task:

· What essential people’s needs can you name? Which of them have to be satisfied first?

· Would it be correct to say that only having satisfied basic needs (food, shelter, love from other people, etc) will the person seek further personal development?

Read the text and compare your ideas with the ones from the text.

Text A

Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper ’A Theory of Human Motivation.’ His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology, some of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans. Maslow used the terms Physiological, Safety, Belongingness and Love, Esteem, Self-Actualization and Self-Transcendence needs to describe the pattern that human motivations generally move through.

Maslow studied what he called exemplary people such as Albert Einstein, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass rather than mentally ill or neurotic people. Thus he studied the healthiest 1% of the college student population.

Abraham Maslow

Maslow's theory was fully expressed in his 1954 book Motivation and Personality

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is often portrayed in the shape of a pyramid with the largest, most fundamental levels of needs at the bottom and the need for self-actualization at the top. While the pyramid has become the de facto way to represent the hierarchy, Maslow himself never used a pyramid to describe these levels in any of his writings on the subject.

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