Bluma zeigarnik biography of william butler

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.

Bluma Zeigarnik was amazed by what she had witnessed.

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.

In , she became professor and chair of the Department of Education at North Carolina College at Durham, where she spearheaded important.

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, At at the University of Berlin , she met Kurt Lewin and upon graduation assisted him in his experimental work. She graduated in and received a Doctoral degree from the same university in In , a major event happened in Zeigarnik's life; her husband Albert was arrested and sentenced on February 26, by the Special Council of the NKVD to 10 years in prison in a labor camp, which is often referred to as Gulag , "as an agent of foreign intelligence and for espionage activities" rehabilitated on June 27, By this time, they had two children, one six years old born in and the other less than a year old born in ; she was left to take care of them by herself.