Practice question · True or false
Maslow held that a lower need must be fully satisfied before a person can pursue the one above it.
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- Did Maslow himself insist on strict order?
- Artists starve; people create while lonely.
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False
Why
False. Maslow explicitly allowed partial satisfaction and overlap, people pursue meaning while hungry and create while isolated. The rigid staircase is a textbook simplification, and it is the version cross-cultural evidence contradicts; the catalogue of needs has aged far better than the ordering.
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