Bluma Zeigarnik was a Soviet psychologist and a member of the Berlin School of experimental psychology and the Vygotsky Circle, who contributed to establishing experimental psychopathology as a separate discipline in the Soviet Union after the Second World War. In the 1920s she conducted a study on memory comparing interrupted and completed tasks and found that interrupted tasks were remembered better, a finding now known as the Zeigarnik effect. From 1931 she worked in the Soviet Union and is considered one of the co-founders of the Department of Psychology at Moscow State University.
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Birth DateGiven in the Gregorian calendar; the Julian (Old Style) date is 27 October 1900. BirthplacePrienai, Suwalki Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania) 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionDiscovered the Zeigarnik effect, the finding that people remember interrupted or uncompleted tasks better than completed ones, and helped establish experimental psychopathology as a distinct discipline in the Soviet Union. 1 Notable WorkThe Pathology of Thinking (1965) 1 Connections
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First documented the effect bearing her name: that people recall interrupted or incomplete tasks better than completed ones.
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Wikimedia FoundationEarly life and education section
Zeigarnik was born as Ženya Bluma Gerštein (or Geršteinaitė) into a Jewish family in Prienai in Suwałki Governorate of the Russian Empire
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9 November [O.S. 27 October] 1900-24 February 1988
Later life section
Zeigarnik died in Moscow on February 24, 1988.
Selected publications list
1965: The Pathology of Thinking. New York: Consultants Bureau Enterprises.
Early life and education section, birth-name clause
Zeigarnik was born as Ženya Bluma Gerštein (or Geršteinaitė) into a Jewish family in Prienai in Suwałki Governorate of the Russian Empire
Early life and education section, birthplace clause
Zeigarnik was born as Ženya Bluma Gerštein (or Geršteinaitė) into a Jewish family in Prienai in Suwałki Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania)
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was a Soviet psychologist and a member of the Berlin School of experimental psychology and the so-called Vygotsky Circle.
Lead paragraph, memory-finding clause
She had found that interrupted tasks are remembered better than completed ones; this is now known as the Zeigarnik effect.
In Branch: Social Psychology, Categories
Wikipedia article 'Bluma Zeigarnik' is filed under Category:Social psychologists.
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