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Abraham Maslow Abraham Maslow was born April 1, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York. As the son of uneducated Jewish Russian immigrants, Abraham was pushed towards academic success. In order to please his parents, Maslow first started off studying law at the City College of New York. After three semesters, however, Maslow decided that law was not for him. After marrying his first cousin, Bertha, they moved to Wisconsin where he decided to study psychology. By 1934 Maslow had received a PhD in psychology and from then on he was a professor at various universities. In 1951he began his crusade for a humanistic psychology. Maslow developed a theory that certain needs take precedence over others. His theory developed into the famous idea of hierarchy of needs. These needs form a basic pyramid shape, starting at the bottom with deficit needs and coming to a point with being needs. The base layer is...

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