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  2. Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia

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    Physiological needs include: Air, Water, Food, Heat, Clothes, Reproduction, Shelter [22] and Sleep. Many of these physiological needs must be met for the human body to remain in homeostasis. Air, for example, is a physiological need; a human being requires air more urgently than higher-level needs, such as a sense of social belonging.

  3. ERG theory - Wikipedia

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    Alderfer categorized Maslow's physiological needs and Maslow's safety needs into the existence category, Maslow's social needs and Maslow's extrinsic component of self-esteem needs into the relatedness category, and Maslow's intrinsic component of self-esteem needs and Maslow's self-actualization needs into the growth category.

  4. Metamotivation - Wikipedia

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    Metamotivation is a term coined by Abraham Maslow to describe the motivation of people who are self-actualized and striving beyond the scope of their basic needs to reach their full potential. Maslow suggested that people are initially motivated by a series of basic needs, [1] called the hierarchy of needs.

  5. Content theory - Wikipedia

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    Physiological needs are the lowest and the most important level. These fundamental requirements include food, rest, shelter, and exercise. After the physiological needs are satisfied, employees can focus on safety needs, which include "protection against danger, threat and deprivation."

  6. Dependency need - Wikipedia

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    The five stages include, physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, self-esteem needs, and self-actualization. Physiological needs are needs that everyone has to have in order to survive, such as air, food, water, and sleep. After a person has attained these physiological needs, he or she then focuses his or her attention to safety needs.

  7. Motivation - Wikipedia

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    This can involve psychological aspects in relation to desires and volitions or physiological aspects regarding physical needs. [17] For example, John Dewey and Abraham Maslow use a psychological perspective to understand motivation as a form of desire [ 18 ] while Jackson Beatty and Charles Ransom Gallistel see it as a physical process akin to ...

  8. Drive reduction theory (learning theory) - Wikipedia

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    Drive" is defined as motivation that arises due to a psychological or physiological need. [2] It works as an internal stimulus that motivates an individual to sate the drive. [ 3 ] It has also been described as an internal and instinctual process that moves individuals to take actions that would allow them to attain their desired goal or end ...

  9. Human givens - Wikipedia

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    Physical needs for nutritious food, clean water, air and sleep are obvious, and well understood, because when they are not met people die. However, the emotional needs, which the human givens approach seeks to bring to wider attention, are less obvious, and less well understood, but just as important to human health.