medical Definition of Zeigarnik effect
: the psychological tendency to remember an uncompleted task rather than a completed one
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Biographical Note for zeigarnik effect
Zeigarnik, Bluma (1900–1988),
Russian psychologist. Zeigarnik first described the Zeigarnik effect in her 1927 doctoral thesis.
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