Can children learn if they are hungry or feel unsafe in their neighborhood? Take Maslow's hierarchy of needs when answering this question. What criticisms would you offer about this hierarchy?
Maslow suggested that humans have a hierarchy of needs ranging from lower-level needs for survival and safety to high-level needs for intellectual achievement and finally self-actualization. as the "pyramid" goes up, each level becomes less important than the next. If a child is concerned about heir need to survive and safety (lowest and most important level) they are going to focus on fixing that problem first. It is hard for a child to feed their need for intellectual achievement (higher and less important level) when their mind is somewhere else. This theory can be criticized for the most obvious reason in that people do not always appear to behave as the theory would predict. Most of us move back and forth among different types of needs and may be motivated by many needs at the same time. Some people deny themselves one need in order to achieve another.
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