Zeigarnik effect

English

Etymology

After Bluma Zeigarnik, Soviet psychologist and psychiatrist (d. 1988), who studied the phenomenon.

Noun

Zeigarnik effect (plural Zeigarnik effects)

  1. The effect that remembering something is easier if a study period is interrupted by other tasks.

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