This is the article in which Maslow first presented his hierarchy of needs. It was first printed in his 1943 paper ampquotA Theory of Human Motivationampquot. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humansamp39 innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology some of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans. Maslow described various needs and used the terms ampquotPhysiological Safety Belongingness and Love Esteem SelfActualization and SelfTranscendenceampquot needs to describe the pattern that human motivations generally move through. Maslow studied what he called exemplary people such as Albert Einstein Jane Addams Eleanor Roosevelt and Frederick Douglass rather than mentally ill or neurotic people.