psychological effect, which consists in the fact that a person remembers interrupted actions better than completed ones. The phenomenon was studied by B. V. Zeigarnik within the framework of disorders of the motivational component of memory. The method of experiments by B.V. Zeigarnik consisted in the fact that the subjects were offered a sequence of 18-20 tasks, half of which were interrupted, and the other half were completed. When the person finished the last action, the experimenter asked him to list what tasks he performed. The results of the experiments showed that the reproduction of incomplete actions was almost twice as large as the reproduction of completed ones. Based on the results obtained, it was assumed that an undischarged system determines better reproduction of tasks.