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== Overview ==
 
== Overview ==
 
[[Image:Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.svg|thumb|right|450px|An interpretation of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, represented as a pyramid with the more basic needs at the bottom<ref name=honolulu>
 
[[Image:Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.svg|thumb|right|450px|An interpretation of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, represented as a pyramid with the more basic needs at the bottom<ref name=honolulu>
[http://web.archive.org/web/20100211014419/http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/maslow.htm Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs]</ref>]]
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From Wikipedia: ''A '''need<ref name=wikipedia_need>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need Wikipedia entry on Need]</ref>''' is something that is necessary for organisms to live a healthy life. Needs are distinguished from wants because a deficiency would cause a clear negative outcome, such as dysfunction or death. Needs can be objective and physical, such as food, or they can be subjective and psychological, such as the need for self-esteem. On a social level, needs are sometimes controversial. Understanding needs and wants is an issue in the fields of politics, social science, and philosophy.
  
From Wikipedia: ''A '''need'''<ref name=honolulu></ref> is something that is necessary for organisms to live a healthy life. Needs are distinguished from wants because a deficiency would cause a clear negative outcome, such as dysfunction or death. Needs can be objective and physical, such as food, or they can be subjective and psychological, such as the need for self-esteem. On a social level, needs are sometimes controversial. Understanding needs and wants is an issue in the fields of politics, social science, and philosophy.
 
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
 
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Latest revision as of 17:29, 20 October 2012

[edit] Overview

File:Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.svg
An interpretation of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, represented as a pyramid with the more basic needs at the bottom<ref name=honolulu> Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs</ref>

From Wikipedia: A need<ref name=wikipedia_need>Wikipedia entry on Need</ref> is something that is necessary for organisms to live a healthy life. Needs are distinguished from wants because a deficiency would cause a clear negative outcome, such as dysfunction or death. Needs can be objective and physical, such as food, or they can be subjective and psychological, such as the need for self-esteem. On a social level, needs are sometimes controversial. Understanding needs and wants is an issue in the fields of politics, social science, and philosophy.


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