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21. The Zeigarnik Effect: Transforming Learning with the Power of Unfinished Tasks No More Boring Learning by Brain Bakery
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Does this sound familiar? When you start working on a task but do not complete it, you keep thinking about the unfinished work and have the urge to go back even if you are doing something else? You are reading a book...and you can't out it down until you get to the end of the chapter? Finishing that level on your favourite video game, before switching off?What is that? It's a psychological phenomenon named after Bluma Zeigarnik, a Lithuanian psychologist who first studied it ...
Does this sound familiar? When you start working on a task but do not complete it, you keep thinking about the unfinished work and have the urge to go back even if you are doing something else? You are reading a book...and you can't out it down until you get to the end of the chapter? Finishing that level on your favourite video game, before switching off?What is that? It's a psychological phenomenon named after Bluma Zeigarnik, a Lithuanian psychologist who first studied it ...
15 min.