<P> Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in Psychological Review . Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity . His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology, some of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans . Maslow used the terms "physiological", "safety", "belonging and love", "esteem", "self - actualization", and "self - transcendence" to describe the pattern that human motivations generally move through . The goal of Maslow's Theory is to attain the sixth level or stage: self transcendent needs . </P> <P> Maslow studied what he called exemplary people such as Albert Einstein, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass rather than mentally ill or neurotic people, writing that "the study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy ." Maslow studied the healthiest 1% of the college student population . </P>

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