Bluma zeigarnik biography of christopher brown

She contributed to the establishment of experimental psychopathology as a separate discipline in the Soviet Union in the post-World War II period. In the s she conducted a study on memory, in which she compared memory in relation to interrupted and completed tasks. She had found that interrupted tasks are remembered better than completed ones; this is now known as the Zeigarnik effect.

From she worked in the Soviet Union. She is considered one of the co-founders of the Department of Psychology at the Moscow State University. In she received the Lewin Memorial Award for her psychological research. Her primary language was Russian, although she was also able to speak Yiddish, Lithuanian, and Polish. Bluma's parents informally adopted her future husband, Albert Zeigarnik, and paid for education of both children abroad.

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In her autobiographic note, which she wrote in as it was required for her doctorate thesis and which is available from the archive of the Humboldt University, she wrote that until she was 15, she took private lessons and in she entered the [fifth grade of] Reimann—Dalmatov Gymnasium in Minsk , which she left in after passing the final exam. In May , the future couple left for Berlin, where he studied at the Polytechnic Institute and she at the University of Berlin.

They married in Kaunas on January 9,