English Explanatory Dictionary

Zeigarnik effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Zeigarnik effect Zeigarnik effects

Etymology

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

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