hology. One of the most famous thinkers of motivation, Abraham Maslow devised a six-level hierarchy of motives, or needs, that he claimed can determine human behavior. The motives, or needs, are ranked by Maslow as follows: 1) physiological, 2) security and safety, 3) love and feelings of belonging, 4) competence, prestige and esteem, 5) self-fulfillment, and 6) curiosity and the need to understand.
One can clearly see, based on the psychological study of motivation, there is a strong connection to Maslow's theory because the idea that humans can be motivated at all, suggests behavioral changes. On the contrast though, behaviorism concentrates upon lawful changes in behaviors created by stimuli as learning, whereas motivational theory deals with the processes and structures that cause people to want to learn.
Maslow felt one can make sense of the theory by examining the finest specimens of the species. To be able to discover exemplary qualities in the human race, he studied the lives of Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einst
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