Civics and Ethics: Human Needs, Personal Potential, and Glocal Citizenship

Comprehensive vocabulary flashcards covering Maslow's hierarchy of human needs, Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, personal potential and strategic planning (SWOT analysis), ethical and personal values, and glocal citizenship.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

A psychological pyramid model organized in the 1940s illustrating that human needs exist in a hierarchy, where basic physiological and safety requirements must be met before individuals can pursue complex needs like love, esteem, and self-actualization.

SWOT Analysis (DAFO)

A personal and contextual strategic planning tool used to evaluate internal factors (strengths and weaknesses) and external factors (opportunities and threats), both positive and negative, to achieve one's aims.

Physiological Needs

The fundamental biological requirements necessary for human survival, including air, water, food, shelter (housing and protection from exposure), clothing, sleep, and reproduction.

Safety Needs

The requirements for security and predictability in one's environment, encompassing personal security (freedom from violence, crime, and war), health and wellbeing, financial security, stable environments, and safety nets.

Love & Belonging Needs

Social connection and acceptance needs that involve family, friendship, community, romantic relationships, group membership, affection, and intimacy.

Esteem Needs

Needs related to recognition, competence, and respect, including self-respect, confidence, reputation, achievement, and receiving respect from others.

Self-Actualisation

The realization of one's full potential, characterized by creativity, personal growth, moral development, the pursuit of meaning, purpose-driven action, and peak experiences involving joy, transcendence, and insight.

Basic Needs

A set of physiological and psychological states producing overpowering impulses that must be satisfied for healthy physical and emotional development.

Abraham Maslow

An influential twentieth-century American humanist psychologist (1908–1970) who organized human needs into a pyramid hierarchy and proposed that emotional and intellectual potential is unlocked by satisfying basic and complex needs.

Education (as a Social Need)

A complex human need through which individuals acquire values, knowledge, and skills to interact socially, fostering democratic participation and promoting the common good.

Glocality

The reciprocal relationship in which local elements impact the world globally and worldwide actions influence local communities, embodied by the phrase 'think global, act local and vice versa.'

Global Citizenship

An educational and cultural perspective involving interconnection among the planet's communities and inhabitants through glocal participation in ideas, solutions, and debates.

Right to the City

A concept introduced in 1968 by French sociologist Henri Lefebvre, establishing the city as a space where human fundamental rights can be exercised most effectively to manage the well-being of all inhabitants.

Citizen Mobilization

A collective social tool used by citizens to reclaim public spaces, alter patterns of land use, and prioritize the common good over neoliberal privatization.

Sense of Belonging

The perception individuals have of being part of a group to the extent that they consider it their own, establishing mutual trust, recognition, respect, and support.

Globalization

The process that makes worldwide connections among human populations more evident through enhanced transportation, digital communication, international trade agreements, and continuous migration.

Self-Awareness

The knowledge of one's own abilities, likes, dislikes, weaknesses, and needs, serving as an essential tool for goal-setting and decision-making independently of others' expectations.

Capabilities

The knowledge, abilities, and talents that an individual can perform or develop with ease.

Potential

The areas and capabilities an individual can develop by applying extra dedication, effort, learning, and understanding.

Intelligence

The set of cognitive competencies demonstrated through abilities, talents, or mental skills capable of resolving real-world problems.

Multiple Intelligences

A cognitive model proposed by American psychologist Howard Gardner stating that all people possess eight distinct forms of intelligence functioning in parallel, each linked to specific areas of the brain.

Spatial Intelligence

A cognitive competency focused on understanding components of physical space such as direction, depth, and distance, enabling individuals to draw, design, read maps, and assemble puzzles easily.

Naturalistic Intelligence

An intelligence proposed by Howard Gardner that enables individuals to adapt to, explore, and understand their environment by distinguishing variations in flora, fauna, climate, and terrain.

Musical Intelligence

A cognitive competence linked to auditory processing and sound analysis, typically prominent in individuals who learn and play musical instruments with ease.

Strategic Plan

A personalized roadmap outlining sequential steps to achieve personal goals while accounting for internal capacities and external limitations like time, location, and financial resources.

Strengths (SWOT)

Internal, positive elements consisting of capacities, intelligences, talents, or gifts that make an individual unique and represent tasks they can do with ease.

Weaknesses (SWOT)

Internal, negative elements that represent activities an individual finds difficult or areas that require extra effort to improve.

Opportunities (SWOT)

External, positive circumstances or resources—such as local community services, proximity to schools, or government scholarships—that act as an impulse toward reaching one's goals.

Threats (SWOT)

External, negative factors or obstacles—such as social difficulties, unfavorable socioeconomic conditions, or long distances from resources—that can impede goal attainment.

Values

Abstract concepts and constructive cultural ideals that regulate relations with society, guide behavior, and define how personal, social, and economic aims are pursued.

Ethical Values

General values such as justice, freedom, loyalty, and fairness that focus on collective welfare and are aimed at supporting the common good.

Personal Values

An individualized scale of values and rules of conduct—such as optimism, simplicity, prudence, or gratitude—linked to personal preferences and daily behavioral decisions.

Interests

An individual's personal tastes and preferences that guide vocational choices, which do not necessarily have to align directly with their natural abilities or developed intelligences.