Biological and Humanistic Approaches to Personality Reggie Brazzell
PSY 250
January 11, 2015
Leslie Kille

Biological and Humanistic Approaches to Personality
When it comes to breaking down biological and humanistic approaches to personality, particularly with the method used by Abraham Maslow. Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist who was mostly known for creating Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a theory on psychological health based on the fulfillment of human needs that culminated in self-actualization (McLeod, 2007). Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

The hierarchy created by Maslow is a pyramid what display the influence of human needs has on the formation of individual personality. There are also factors within the biological needs that influence formation regarding the way the personality impacts, which going by Maslow’s personality theory, shapes relationships. Prior to Maslow’s theory, many researchers general focus was separate on factors relating to biology, achievement, or the power to discuss what energizes, directs, and sustains human behavior. Maslow’s argument of the hierarchy of human needs was based on two groupings, which are deficiency needs and growth needs (McLeod, 2007). .

When it comes to deficiency needs, every lower need must be met before moving on to a higher level. Once on a higher level and a deficiency may arise from a level lower than the one the individual is on now, say for instance in the future as an example, the individual will automatically react to remove that deficiency. The first level...

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