_____ recognized the role of consciousness when he proposed that people have cognitive needs to know and to understand.

A) Maslow
B) Zuckerman
C) Seligman
D) Rotter

Cognitive Needs

Psychological requirements of a person for understanding, knowledge, and intellectual development.

Consciousness

The condition in which an individual is conscious of and can reflect upon their own being, senses, mental activities, environment, and life events.

Maslow

A leading figure in psychology, Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist famous for formulating the hierarchy of needs theory, which asserts that psychological health stems from the sequential fulfillment of inherent human needs, the ultimate of which is self-actualization.