Bluma Zeigarnik

Bluma Zeigarnik, born on October twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred, was a prominent Soviet psychologist and psychiatrist. She was a key figure in the Berlin School of experimental psychology and a member of the influential Vygotsky Circle. Her work significantly contributed to the establishment of experimental psychopathology as a distinct discipline in the Soviet Union during the post-World War II era.

In the 1920s, Zeigarnik conducted groundbreaking research on memory, focusing on the relationship between interrupted and completed tasks. Her findings revealed that individuals tend to remember interrupted tasks more vividly than those that are completed, a phenomenon that has since been termed the Zeigarnik effect.

After relocating to the Soviet Union in nineteen thirty-one, she became one of the co-founders of the Department of Psychology at Moscow State University. Her contributions to the field of psychology were recognized in nineteen eighty-three when she received the prestigious Lewin Memorial Award for her research.