excerpt from What Is It That
You Really Need?
Sometimes it seems as if we never get what we want. But
sometimes when we do get what we want, we realize that it's
not what we really want. That's because our wants don't always
match our needs. The solution to this problem is to try to
understand and satisfy our real needs.
Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and
human and animal behavior. A lot of psychological research
has been done about human needs and how they should be
satisfied. Studies have shown that humans have basic needs
that must be consistently met. Studies have also shown that
there is an order of importance in which these needs must be
satisfied. An individual's basic functional needs must be
satisfied before he or she can go on and meet other more
creative and self-fulfilling needs.
Abraham Harold Maslow (1908-1970) was an important
psychologist who became famous for his studies regarding
human needs and wants. He wrote two major works, Motivation
and Personality and Toward a Psychology of Being. Maslow
stressed that basic needs must first be satisfied before a
person is able to be creative or function independently. He
created his famous hierarchy of needs theory, which separates
human needs into five layers. Each layer in the hierarchy must
be satisfied before a person can proceed to the next layer.
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Select the correct answer.
What is one reason the author uses italicized font in the passage?
О А.to properly format book titles
B.to emphasize the text structure
C.to emphasize Maslow's theory
D.to properly format headings