Zeigarnik-effect Definition

noun

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

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zeigarnik-effect
Plural:
Zeigarnik effects

Origin of Zeigarnik-effect

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

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