Hierarchy of Cognitive Needs
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Hierarchy of Cognitive Needs
The Hierarchy of Cognitive Needs is the second hierarchy of needs proposed by Maslow in his seminal article "A Theory of Human Motivation".[1]
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Key Terms
- Eupsychian Education
- Eupsychian Management
- Eupsychian Psychology
- Eupsychian Theory
- Eupsychian Therapy
- Humanistic Psychology
- Transpersonal Psychology
Maslow's Theory of Needs > Hierarchy of Basic Needs
Related LP Terms
Human Development : Seven Essential Needs > Growth Mode, Healing Space, Human Steward, Institution, Internally Directed Arms, Knowledge Steward, Lightning Path Curriculum, Lightning Path School of Human Development, Maladaptive Adaptation, Pathfinder Educational Model, Physical Unit, Psychological Framework, Stages of Human Development, Statement of Co-Creation and Planetary Collaboration, World System
Non-LP Related Terms
Human Development : Seven Essential Needs > Ahimsa, Assault, Boundary Violation, Essential Needs, Eupsychia, Health, Horticultural Model, Needs, Neurodecolonization, Polyvagal Theory, Sculptural Model
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Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Cognitive Needs
No doubt Maslow based his statement of the existence and significance of cognitive needs on his clinical evidence, these needs are self-evident in every small child. The need to know is on display in children at a very early age. As Maslow says, this is the "basic desire to know, to be aware of reality, to get the facts, to satisfy curiosity, or as Wertheimer phrases it, to see rather than to be blind." (Maslow, 1943, p. 385). On the need to understand, Maslow observed that "even after we know, we are impelled to know more and more minutely and microscopically on the one hand, and on the other, more and more extensively in the direction of a world philosophy, religion, etc." (Maslow, 1943, p. 385). In other words, it was never enough to just know something, we also had to understand. According to Maslow, "The facts that we acquire, if they are isolated or atomistic, inevitably get theorized about, and either analyzed or organized or both. This process has been phrased by some as the search for 'meaning.' We shall then postulate a desire to understand, to systematize, to organize, to analyze, to look for relations and meanings"(Maslow, 1943, p. 385). Maslow notes of the need to know and the need to understand, "we see that they too form themselves into a small hierarchy" [2]
List of Terms used by Abraham Maslow
Aggridant, B-Cognition, B-Needs, B-Realm, B-Values, Being-Guilt, Big Problem, D-Cognition, D-Realm, Deficiency Diseases, Diminished Human Being, Eupsychia, Eupsychian Education, Eupsychian Management, Eupsychian Psychology, Eupsychian Theory, Eupsychian Therapy, Good Chooser, Good Person, Good Science, Good Society, Good Specimen, Growing-Tip Statistics, Hierarchy of Basic Needs, Hierarchy of Cognitive Needs, Horticultural Model, Human Diminution, Human Motivation, Human Potential, Humanistic Psychology, Inner Signals, Intrinsic Conscience, Jonah Complex, Metapathology, Motivation, Normalcy, Normative Biology, Peak Experience, Plateau Experience, Real Self, Sculptural Model, Self-Actualization, Transcending Self-Actualizers, Transhumanistic, Transpersonal Psychology
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