As a university student, you are satisfying your needs for knowledge and understanding. Although you would like to spend all of your time studying, you find that you have to take a job in order to get enough money for food. According to Maslow, you have regressed from satisfying your cognitive needs to working at your
A)aesthetic needs
B)physiological needs
C)safety needs
D)esteem needs
E)degree of self-actualization

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Maslow's hierarchy of needs places physiological needs (such as food) as the most basic and foundational. When you have to work to afford food, you are focusing on satisfying these basic physiological needs, which is a step back from higher-level needs like cognitive needs (knowledge and understanding).

As a University Student, You Are Satisfying Your Needs for Knowledge