Contrast Maslow's hierarchy of needs and his theory of cognitive needs

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

ANS: Maslow proposed a hierarchy of five innate needs that activate and direct human behavior. They are the physiological, safety, belongingness and love, esteem, and self-actualization needs. The needs are arranged in order from strongest at the bottom to the weakest at the top. Lower needs must be at least partially satisfied before higher needs become influential. We are not driven by all the needs at the same time. In general, only one need will dominate our personality at any one point in time. Which one it will be depends on which of the others have been satisfied. The order of the needs can be changed.
Maslow later proposed a second set of innate needs, the cognitive needs—to know and to understand, which exist outside the hierarchy we have described. The need to know is stronger than the need to understand, and must therefore be at least partially satisfied before the need to understand can emerge. The hierarchy of these two needs overlaps the original five-need hierarchy. Knowing and understanding—essentially, finding meaning in our environment—are basic to interacting with that environment in an emotionally healthy, mature way to satisfy physiological, safety, belongingness and love, esteem, and self-actualization needs.