Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Which of these are included in five different kinds of need Maslow identified:

• physiological

• Safety

• Belongingness and Love

• Esteem

• Self actualisation

Which part of the pyramid is can be described as 'becoming who you are'

• Esteem

• Belongingness and Love

• Safety

• Self-actualisation

What inspired Maslow's pyramid?

• A feeling that materialism, though popular, was not a spiritually or morally healthy way of being

• To help people to deal psychologically with their poverty

• To promote communism

• To promote a more capitalistic society

What is the best description of Maslow's idea about materialism?

• It is not a bad thing and can be useful, but it doesn't meet our deeper needs

• It blinds us from our spiritual needs

• It will replace our spiritual and emotional lives, replacing these needs.

What for Maslow was the next step in American society?

• That they should invent something that meets spiritual appetites

• That they should eradicate the need for spiritual experience because they could provide for all of our material needs

• That the success of mass-production would collapse leading to a dystopian society because people were neglecting their spiritual needs

Which of Maslow's 'needs' have you met? Which have you not met and how do you expect to meet these in the future?

Answer explanation

In which country was Maslow's academic paper in which this idea was recorded first printed?

• Austria

• The US

• Belgium

• The UK

According to Maslow, some needs are:

• a. the only important ones

• b. the most important ones

• c. much less important than others

Deficiency needs are ones that:

• a. motivate people who have them met

• b. motivate people who lack them

• c. do not motivate people

According to the text, some people fluctuate between levels in the hierarchy because of:

• character flaws

• interpersonal relationships

• certain events