The hierarchy of needs has been effectively presented by Maslow using a modified manner such that the pecking order includes three more needs in the top to make them eight basic needs. The first four needs have been addressed as the deficit needs by Maslow since failure to address the needs makes human beings to be uncomfortable with the needs creating motivation or the urge to fulfill the needs in a sufficient manner. The other needs in the hierarchy are identified as the needs of growth in that people cannot be able to satisfy the needs. As a result, human beings tend to be constantly motivated by the needs since they are closely linked to daily development and growth of human beings. The cognitive needs have been arranged in a manner that a human is motivated basically by any need if only he has been able to fulfill the needs in the lower level in the hierarchy(Engler 21). The challenges faced while trying to respond to needs as they arise usually affects people that are unable to earn a good living. Cognitive needs help in the expression of human nature through their ability to learn, improve, explore, discover as well as creating a better understanding of their environment.
In the Maslow’s hierarchy, there are physiological needs in every basic animal to things such as water, shelter, food, sex, and warmth among other body needs. When a human is thirsty or hungry, the body tends to be chemically unbalanced with all the energy being used in treating the deficiencies while the other needs stay inactive. Failure to address biological needs might lead to lack of trust in the environment resulting in high anxiety and neuroticism. The satisfaction of physical needs eventually leads to a dominant behavior of addressing safety needs(Walker 32). In this phase, a person has to address the needs that are predictable which arise in the orderly world dominated by inconsistency and injustice projected to the poor person leading to frequent familiar occasions and rare unfamiliar proceedings.
Soon after fulfilling the safety and physiological needs, there are the human social needs with the psychological aspect presented by Maslow involving emotionally based affiliations in general among them being friendships, communicative and supportive family members or sexual intimacy. Failure of a human to create healthy relationships can lead to one being bedeviled thus having negative social feelings such as guilt together with low extraversion principles. Additionally, despite the level of earnings made by a human, they deserve to be respected, have self-respect, self-esteem as well as the respect for other people. Human beings are supposed to engage themselves in order to expand recognition in addition to having activities that offer a sense of contribution thus developing a feeling of acceptance and self-worth(Shiraev 13). Failure to address the self-esteem needs and causes an inferiority feeling which in turn leads to decreased agreeableness.
According to Maslow, cognitive needs usually increase the human intelligence which in turn increases the knowledge quest. Cognitive needs help in ensuring effective expression of natural needs to gain knowledge, create and discover in order to get an efficient understanding of the environment. The growth usually requires self-actualization as well as learning and failure to fulfill the needs can result into identity crisis and confusion since the need is directly associated to the urge to explore in an attempt to get open experiences. Based o Maslow’s beliefs, the needs hierarchy is a beautiful imagery which can also be described as something new that is also aesthetically pleasing leading to self-actualization(Engler 45). Therefore, human beings need to frequently refresh in nature’s beauty and presence while cautiously absorbing and scrutinizing the surrounding in order to extract the real world’s beauty. The need tends to relate the human to the world in a beautiful manner leading to the development of an intimate feeling with nature.
Moreover, Maslow presents the cognitive needs in a self-actualized manner whereby a person develops the instinctual urge that makes a person to utilize his ability thus striving to produce the best possible results. When a person has the ability to fulfill the self-actualization need, he is able to develop a generativity feeling leading to inventions and innovations while trying to satisfy their daily requirements. The human cognitive needs can also be linked to self-transcendence or rather the spiritual affiliation(Shiraev 56). The needs seem to differ since they can be fulfilled or accessed at various levels. Fulfilling the need leads to an integrity feeling which in turn elevates the life of a human to another level.
In conclusion, the hierarchy of needs presented by Maslow has presented the cognitive needs of a human in an effective manner whereby the challenge of addressing the needs of a person basically depends on the level of association. As a result, those with the ability to make ends meet in the society tend to address the needs in an effective manner compared to those that bearly make a living. This leads to disparities in fulfilling the needs in the society which could be as a result of forces such as the environment.
Work Cited
Engler, Barbara. Personality Theories: An Introduction. Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2014.
Shiraev, Eric. Personality Theories: A Global View. SAGE, 2017.
Walker, Velma. Becoming Aware: A Text/Workbook for Human Relations and Personal Adjustment. Kendall Hunt, 2017.
