Post by tanjilaakterjarin12 on Nov 17, 2024 17:31:57 GMT 8
Tasks that are unfinished better than those that have already been completed. It is a psychological effect widely used by Gestalt psychology to explain that gestalt events are not only elements of perception but are also part of reasoning. Its name comes from the initial application made by the Soviet psychologist and psychiatrist Bluma . Bluma explained that “Our minds quickly forget completed tasks . However, they are programmed to continually interrupt us with unfinished tasks. These intrusions constitute the effect.
Origin of the effect Russian psychologist and telegram blast psychiatrist first studied this phenomenon after her Gestalt teacher Kurk Lewin observed that a waiter remembered better those orders that had not yet been paid for, but by the time the task was completed, he could not remember those orders in detail. In 1927, Bluma Zeiarnik published a study in the journal Psychological Research regarding the ease with which humans forget an activity once it has been completed , based on an experiment he conducted with a group of people to whom he assigned a series of activities, interrupting many of these before finishing them.
The result of the experiment was that the sample worked tended to remember more easily those activities in which they were interrupted. The support for the conclusions of Bluma study is Kurt Lewin's field theory, which argues that an initiated task establishes a task-specific tension that improves the cognitive accessibility of relevant content. Lewin also explains in his theory that once a task is finished, tension is relieved, which does not happen if it is interrupted. The continued tension makes the content more accessible, which makes it easier to remember.
Origin of the effect Russian psychologist and telegram blast psychiatrist first studied this phenomenon after her Gestalt teacher Kurk Lewin observed that a waiter remembered better those orders that had not yet been paid for, but by the time the task was completed, he could not remember those orders in detail. In 1927, Bluma Zeiarnik published a study in the journal Psychological Research regarding the ease with which humans forget an activity once it has been completed , based on an experiment he conducted with a group of people to whom he assigned a series of activities, interrupting many of these before finishing them.
The result of the experiment was that the sample worked tended to remember more easily those activities in which they were interrupted. The support for the conclusions of Bluma study is Kurt Lewin's field theory, which argues that an initiated task establishes a task-specific tension that improves the cognitive accessibility of relevant content. Lewin also explains in his theory that once a task is finished, tension is relieved, which does not happen if it is interrupted. The continued tension makes the content more accessible, which makes it easier to remember.
