Bluma zeigarnik biography template
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Introducing the Zeigarnik Effect
This week’s brev was written close to International Women&#;s Day and is therefore dedicated to celebrating Soviet psychologist and psychiatrist, Dr. Bluma Zeigarnik. Born in , Zeigarnik passed away in and she’s widely recognized as one of the great pioneers of psychological study, specifical research on memory and how it relates to user experience.
We’ve already discussed memory on this blog, and in particular, we looked at how the Primacy and Recency effects man it easier for us to remember the beginning or end of an event, list, or any kind of ordered experience.
This post is dedicated to another aspect of how our memory works &#; the Zeigarnik Effect &#; a phenomenon wherein we have a better ability to remember tasks that are ongoing or interrupted over tasks that are complete.
Background
Bluma’s research into memory came about as a result of observation and recommendation from her mentor, Dr. Kurt Lewin who, during his experien
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Zeigarnik effect
Activity that has been interrupted may be more readily recalled
In psychology, the Zeigarnik effect, named after Lithuanian-Soviet psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik, occurs when an activity that has been interrupted may be more readily recalled. It postulates that people remember unfinished or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks. In Gestalt psychology, the Zeigarnik effect has been used to demonstrate the general presence of Gestalt phenomena: not just appearing as perceptual effects, but also present in cognition.
The Zeigarnik effect should not be confused with the Ovsiankina effect. Maria Ovsiankina, a colleague of Zeigarnik, investigated the effect of task interruption on the tendency to resume the task at the next opportunity.[1]
Overview
[edit]Lithuanian-Soviet psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik first studied the phenomenon after professor and Gestalt psychologist Kurt Lewin noticed that a waiter had better recollections of still unpaid or
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Bluma Zeigarnik
Bluma Zeigarnik was a Russian psychologist, born in She was a member of the Berlin School of experimental psychology and Vygotsky Circle. Only in she moved to Berlin together with her husband and graduated from the University of Berlin. She was strongly influenced by Kurt Lewin, who she met and assisted at the university, later worked closely with Vygotsky at All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine (AUIEM) (Denmark ). Her future discovery will be inspired by two of those scientists.
Zeigarnik effect
Zeigarnik effect explains that people tend to remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks. The theory was influenced simply observing a waiter is a café in Berlin. She noticed that the waiter tended to remember complex orders, while they were being prepared (Denmark ). However, as soon as the order was complete they waiter would not remember it so well any longer. Therefore in Zeigarnik started running some experiments under Lewin’