Health Lesson 5A2 - Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs and Emotions

Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs

Some needs are more basic than others. Lower needs must be satisfied before higher-level needs can be met. Presented in ascending order from the most basic to the most satisfying.

Reason for needs being met in healthful ways.

There will be motivation to get them met in unhealthful/inappropriate ways.

Physical Needs (if denied)

They would become physically weak.

Lack of essential nutrients interferes with the normal functioning of the brain.

Affects a person mentally.

Emotional Needs

Need to be loved.

Need to belong.

Need to be valued and recognized.

Aesthetic needs

Our response to or appreciation of that which is beautiful.

We feel the need to appreciate beauty in its many forms.

Self-actualization (and how to work towards it)

The striving to become the best that you can be.

• Having goals that motivate and inspire you.

• Not all needs can be met all the time.

• Strive to satisfy the higher ones.

• Self-actualization is a life long process.

Personality

Complex set of characteristics making you unique.

Sets you apart from everyone else.

Factors include:

• Emotional makeup, attitudes, thoughts, behaviors, etc.

• One window on a person’s mental health.

Heredity

First influence on personality. Includes basic intellectual abilities, temperament. and emotional tendencies.

Environment

Includes all of your surroundings and experiences. Can have positive or negative effects.

• Modeling.

• Copyign the behaviors of those you are exposed to.

Personal Behavior

How you make decisions, what decisions you make, and what actions you take. This can give better quality of life and physical and mental health.

Emotions

Signals telling your mind and body how to react.

The way your body and mind respond to input from outside your body.

Can greatly affect all sides of your health triangle.

Love

Involves strong affection, deep concern, and respect.

Empathy

The ability to imagine and understand how someone feels. Can offer insight and understanding.

Fear

A sageguard or protection if you need to respond to a real threat. Your body responds physically.

• Sympathetic nervous system prepares body for necessary action.

• Hormones secreted to make heart beat faster and breathing rate increase.

Anger

May be displayed as a simple annoyance. May rise up to a boiling rage. If not handled constructively, great damage to others and others property as well as yourself can be caused.

Hostility

Intentional use of unfriendly or nasty behavior.

Guilt

Response when you feel you’ve done something wrong. Results from acting against one’s values or from not acting at all. Associated with low self-esteem. Can motivate you to make positive changes.

emotional responses comon during teen years.

rapid growth and other changes brought on by hormones. changes are normal. all teens go through them.

“Emotions are neither positive nor negative, but the ways they are expressed can be either.”

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