2. Test #2
April 4th (Wed)

3. Mini Quiz!
What were you doing at 9:46pm yesterday?

4. Abraham Maslow

5. Thoughts and Fantasies
Example
Think about food, fantasizing about a big meal
Thoughts and Fantasies
Have not eaten
Need for food
Hunger
Deficit
Need
Motive
Behaviors
Go to store, buy food, bring it home, cook it

6. Needs What needs are basic? Physical Safety Food, water, air, etc.
freedom from threat, danger, etc.

7. Needs What needs are basic? Social / Belonging Self-Esteem
desire for affiliation, beloning, etc.
Self-Esteem
desire for self-confidence, recognition, respect, etc.

8. Needs What needs are basic? Self-Actualization
“to become everything one is capable of becoming”

9. Self-Actualization “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time”
What you are doing when you are not attempting to satisfy another need
Your “true” nature
“to become everything one is capable of becoming”

10. Needs Which needs are more salient to survival?
There is an order that these needs typically occur
Evolutionary explanation

11. Need Hierarchy Theory
Physiological Needs

12. Need Hierarchy Theory
Safety Needs
Physiological Needs

13. Need Hierarchy Theory
Social Needs
Safety Needs
Physiological Needs

14. Need Hierarchy Theory Self-Esteem Needs Social Needs Safety Needs
Physiological Needs

15. Self-Actualization Needs
Need Hierarchy Theory
Self-Actualization Needs
Self-Esteem Needs
Social Needs
Safety Needs
Physiological Needs

18. Need Hierarchy Theory
1) Behavior is dominated by the needs that are unfulfilled
2) Individuals will satisfy the most basic needs first and move up the hierarchy
3) Basic needs have higher priority than higher needs

19. Self-Actualization Needs
Group Activity
Self-Actualization Needs
Where are you?
What are you doing to achieve the needs associated with this level?
Self-Esteem Needs
Social Needs
Safety Needs
Physiological Needs

21. What if. . . . You won a large sum of money? What would you do?
Would this make you happy?

22. Are you happy?

23. Are you happy?

24. Why to we value material goods?
Stuff
Most common response to “what will improve your life”
More money!

25. Is this true? 1950 – present Violent crime Family breakdown
Psychosomatic complaints
Depression
Suicides
Happiness has stayed the same (30% very happy)
Although income has doubled!

26. Is this true? Wealthiest vs. “average” incomes
Very little difference in “happiness”

27. Is this true?
Lottery winners vs. victims struck with severe medical problems
Happiness goes back to before

28. Why? Habituated to money
How much money would you need to fulfill your dreams?
Under $30,000
$50,000
Over $100,000
$250,000
Makes evolutionary sense

29. Why? Energy gets focused on material goods
Loses sense of other important aspects of life

30. Self-Actualization Needs
Need Hierarchy Theory
Self-Actualization Needs
Self-Esteem Needs
Social Needs
Safety Needs
Physiological Needs

31. Achieving Happiness Happiness is a mental state
Achieving it can be done via cognitive means

32. Questionnaire

33. Flow Self-Actualization and “Flow” Optimal Experiences
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Optimal Experiences
Doing something for its own sake, even though it may have no consequences outside itself
Moment-to-moment CS experience
Examples?

34. Flow Engaged deeply in an activity
1) Know clearly what they have to do moment by moment
2) Immediate feedback
3) Tremendous concentration
4) Little distractibility
5) Elevated mood
6) Time passes quickly

35. Flow How do you find flow? Engage in activates that are challenging
Not too easy
Not too hard

36. Flow Happiness Not felt while in flow
Feel on reflection
Important, but not sufficient for happiness

37. Self-Actualization Needs
Need Hierarchy Theory
Self-Actualization Needs
Self-Esteem Needs
Social Needs
Safety Needs
Physiological Needs

38. Flow and Self-Actualization
What you do when you are not attempting to satisfy a need
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time”
Peak Experiences
Flow
Optimal Experience
Done for its own sake, even though it may have no consequences outside itself
Flow is what “self-actualization” feels like