Letter

When it come to Marlow’s hierarchy of needs, they are broke up in two individual categories. The first categories will obtain the deficiency needs which are the necessary for survival. The physiological needs are the basic biological necessities such as food, water, sex, and shelter. The so-called safety needs involve the necessity of a generally predictable world, one that makes some sense. Belongingness and love needs involve psychologically intimate relations with other people. And esteem needs involve respect for oneself and for others. All of these D-needs motivate us through deficits—we need something to fill a drive or void, and thereby reestablish homeostasis bodily balance. The second categories would be that the correct social conditions are needed to encourage the highest level self-actualization; that is, people cannot reach the “being” level B-level,” with “B-values” or “B-motives if they are preoccupied with satisfying their more basic needs. We cannot usually fulfill our complete human potential and search for truth and beauty if we lack food, safety, love, and esteem. Marlow arranged all of these needs in a hierarchy. Maslow's most well known contribution is the Hierarchy of Needs and this is often used to summarize the belief system of humanistic psychology.  The basic premise behind this hierarchy is that we are born with certain needs.  Without meeting these initial needs, we will not be able to continue our life and move upward on hierarchy. Once these needs are met, we can move to the next level, which consists of our need for safety and security.  At this level we look seek out safety through other people and strive to find a world that will protect us and keep us free from harm.  Without these goals being met, it is extremely difficult to think about higher level needs and therefore we can not continue to grow. According to Maslow, may people may be in this level but very few if anybody ever masters it.  Self-actualization refers to a complete understanding of the self.  To be self-actualized means to truly know who you are, where you belong in the greater society, and to feel like you have accomplished all that you have set out to accomplish.  It means to no longer feel shame or guilt, or even hate, but to accept the world and see human nature as inherently good. The biological factors that influence the formation of personality come from ones genes. It affects a person’s characteristic responses. Instead of arguing about the relative effects of heredity versus effects of the environment, it is more productive to try to understand the effects of human biology on human personality, without understating, overstating, or misstating the impacts of heredity. Our understanding of such biological influences on personality has major implications for our beliefs about law and justice. One extreme position is that most criminal or evil acts are committed by people who couldn’t help themselves; they are either compelled, or not restrained, by some disorder in their nervous system. The more difficult, complex position is the one that acknowledges that biological factors influence personality but still recognizes the individual’s capacity to challenge and sometimes overcome these biological tendencies. You also have a influence on personality from the use of effected drugs, such as widely prescribed drugs such as tranquilizers like Valium, sleeping pills like Halcion, and various antidepressants like Prozac are known to have short-term and sometimes long-term effects on personality. | | .