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Zeigarnik effect

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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Zeigarnik effect (plural Zeigarnik effects)

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

See also

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