Zeigarnik effect
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
After Bluma Zeigarnik, Soviet psychologist and psychiatrist (d. 1988), who studied the phenomenon.
Noun[edit]
Zeigarnik effect (plural Zeigarnik effects)
- The effect that remembering something is easier if a study period is interrupted by other tasks.
See also[edit]
- Zeigarnik effect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia