A breakdown of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

1. Abraham Maslow’s
Hierarchy of Needs
Annabelle Parish

2. Abraham Maslow created Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. He was a professor of psychology.
Maslow created this pyramid after research and studies from his work. This pyramid can be
found in films, in some cases very clearly and in some others not as clearly. It is used to help
with the character developments throughout films, for example Forrest Gump. It can also be
understood that the people who would associate more with the green and blue( top two
levels) are more likely to be using and linked to the media.

3. Physiological
The first level of the pyramid is the physiological stage. This is the
level at the bottom of the pyramid so it can be classed as the base
level of the hierarchy. Within this level before anyone can develop
and move onto higher up levels they need to establish each of the
different factors in the level. Some of these are breathing, food,
water, sleep, homeostasis and excretion. For this level all of the
factors come naturally to a person for example when a baby is born
it automatically knows and understands how to excrete. After these
factors have mostly to all been established there could also be
feelings that can be leaning towards generating a family after the
people start feeling content at that level in the pyramid. Before
anyone can move onto higher levels they must have secured and
established all factors successfully.

4. Safety
The second level of the pyramid is safety. This level
includes factors such as security of body so that they
can start to feel confident within their self as well.
Resources, so that they can go out and collect items and
products that can help protect them so that they can
survive. Morality, meaning people will understand the
meaning between right and wrong in all situations.
Family, meaning that after spending time with people
overtime the feelings will start to generate of wanting a
family and to reproduce. Other factors can include health
and property.

5. Love/ Belonging
The third level in the hierarchy pyramid is
Love/Belonging. The factors within this layer include
friendship which means the start of building up
relationships for companionship. Family, which can be
the creation of youth as well as finding the people they
want to spend a lot of time with and be close with. And
finally sexual intimacy. The bottom three to four lower
levels of the hierarchy pyramid are known as deficiency
needs as they are needs that are more basic and will be
a lot easier for larger numbers of people to access.

6. Esteem
The fourth level of the pyramid is the esteem level. The
factors of this level are self esteem, confidence,
achievement, respect for others and respect by others.
All of these factors are there to help with self value as
they are all factors that will take time to develop and
strengthen with the time it takes for each one different for
each individual making it more of a personal
achievement and challenge when developing throughout
the level. As the levels in the pyramid increase they
become more important, as well as becoming harder and
taking longer to achieve a successful result because
they involve more difficult developments.

7. Self- actualization
• The top level of the Maslow’s pyramid is the self-actualization
level. The different factors of the top level include morality,
which is having and example of self respect. Creativity, which
is allowing self expression and value. Other options include
spontaneity, problem solving, lack of prejudice and
acceptance of facts. The prejudice factor is included with in
this top layer of the pyramid because it can become proven
that people who are more educated are more likely to be
associated with this layer allowing them to have a larger
chance of not being or being less prejudice because
education provides people with a broader view on on the
world and different specific situations meaning they can
appear to be less prejudice.