Abraham Maslow
An outline biography
Abraham Maslow - ( Abraham Harold Maslow ), who is widely known of for developing a view
that people are successively motivated by the claims of an
hierarchy of need, was born on 1st April 1908 in
Brooklyn, New York, to a poor, immigrant, Russian Jewish family.
He was their first child, six more were to follow. The parents of
the family saw education as a route to advancement in the United
States and placed great emphasis on their children's progress in
school.
In line with his parents wishes Abraham Maslow began to study
Law but later, following a transfer in his Law studies from New
York to Wisconsin, became fascinated by Psychology becoming
involved in researches upon Rhesus monkeys under the supervision
of the celebrated Harry Harlow. In the event he did not graduate
in Law but was awarded junior and senior degrees to PhD level in
Psychology by the University of Wisconsin between 1930 and
1934.
After a period of further research at New York's Columbia
University he was employed as a lecturer, and eventually as a
full professor in Psychology.
What we now know as Maslow's hierarchy of need dates, in its
initial conception, from circa 1943. This hierarchy is applied to
human beings and is built upon the perception that some needs
take precedence over others.
In later life Maslow was plagued by ill health and withdrew
from full time teaching. He was only sixty-two years of age at
the time of his death in 1970.
Abraham Maslow set out many of his psychological views in his
Toward a Psychology of Being (1962) and in his Farther
Reaches of Human Nature (1971).
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