What's the difference between forget and unlearn?

Forget


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing.
  • (v. t.) To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
  • (2) When tested 4 weeks later, they showed significant forgetting.
  • (3) They make a big deal when it happens, and then they forget.” The use of sarin has been highly contentious throughout the Syrian war.
  • (4) All freedom-loving people will miss him, but we will never forget his sacrifice and his achievements."
  • (5) But we shouldn’t forget that Gawker was not just getting sued over the Hulk Hogan sex tape case.
  • (6) Oh, and let’s not forget about him doing bad dance moves in a video making fun of Drake’s choreography in the Hotline Bling video.
  • (7) "We have vowed to never forget and we never will," he said.
  • (8) Seethetree Kingley Vale, Sussex Forget the colours of autumn; this place is sombre in colour and atmosphere but you will be walking among probably the oldest living organisms in Britain.
  • (9) You will also need to find alternative disposable bags for shops to stock while people get into the habit of bringing their own bag, however, and for when they forget.
  • (10) Also, if you want to press vinyl, forget it – leading up to this day all of the pressing plants are booked.
  • (11) This was generally mild and always fully reversible and consisted mainly of forgetfulness, occasionally hallucinations, nightmares and somnolence.
  • (12) Results for the backward-counting condition duplicate, for the retention intervals used, the shape of the classic Peterson and Peterson forgetting curve but indicate little loss of memory in either the rehearsal or alpha conditions.
  • (13) Forget about the infants' milk, only lucky children can get it.
  • (14) Effectiveness of the neuropharmacological actions improving the memory forgotten trace retrieval is shown to depend upon the duration of the spontaneous forgetting process.
  • (15) The first symptom of the younger brother (case 2) was also forgetfulness at 45 years old, then severe dementia was advanced, at last he died of pneumonia at age 53 old.
  • (16) Our board of trustees already involves [the ice hockey player] Ilya Kovalchuk and his wife Nicole, and we are now negotiating with [the boxer] Roy Jones Jr, who recently received Russian citizenship.” It is clear that Shatov is an achiever more than than a dreamer – a down-to-earth character who will never forget where he came from.
  • (17) Ultimately, we are fallible and forgetful, so the best way to solve the problem is as always choice-editing or design this inconvenience out.
  • (18) Nor should we forget why the Conservatives were so eager to seize that chance: they saw the opportunity to wipe out the achievements of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who demonstrated, over many years of hard graft, that the country’s economic management was safe in Labour’s hands.
  • (19) Deliberate forgetting Wouldn't it be useful if our minds had their own refuse collection service – a way of selectively depositing those memories we no longer require while keeping hold of those that we do?
  • (20) Obama acknowledged he had read an article "in the news just the other day wondering has Washington missed its opportunity, because as time goes on after Newtown, somehow people start moving on and forgetting" This was not the case, he said.

Unlearn


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To forget, as what has been learned; to lose from memory; also, to learn the contrary of.
  • (v. t.) To fail to learn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
  • (2) It is behaviour that is learned and it can be unlearned.
  • (3) The cannabinoids produce a variety of effects on unlearned behavior in different animal species.
  • (4) Just as Labour learned (and then unlearned) that economic credibility is a precondition of electoral victory, so the Tories grasped that they must be trusted as custodians of public services.
  • (5) We suggest that the learned features of oscine songbird vocalizations are controlled by a telencephalic pathway that acts in concert with other pathways responsible for simpler, unlearned vocalizations.
  • (6) The preference for the proper face stimulus by infants who had not seen a real face prior to testing suggests that an unlearned or "evolved" responsiveness to faces may be present in human neonates.
  • (7) Similarly, studies which assess responding to cues thought to signal drug use in the natural environment (e.g., the sight of someone injecting heroin) have not adequately assessed whether such cues have unconditioned (unlearned) effects.
  • (8) John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor , has persuaded most of the world’s rock star economists – Mazzucato herself, Thomas Piketty, Joseph Stiglitz and more – to go on tour with him around the UK to get the voters to #unlearn Labour.
  • (9) This process of unlearning retards the learning of the new contingency.
  • (10) Overall, findings suggest unlearned pecking preferences for short and long wavelengths, with minimums at green.
  • (11) Livingstone, who is a member of the NEC, tweeted: The Guardian view on Labour: grudges nursed, lessons unlearned | Editorial Read more Livingstone said that if Fisher was being suspended, the party should also take action against the MPs Simon Danczuk and Frank Field.
  • (12) Teaching is often delegated to junior house staff and early bad habits are difficult to unlearn in post-graduate training.
  • (13) #Unlearn is a smart way of selling the idea of a change of direction.
  • (14) (1) Overregularization errors are relatively rare (median 2.5% of irregular past tense forms), suggesting that there is no qualitative defect in children's grammars that must be unlearned.
  • (15) Hence, so long as they were unlearning these customs gradually and by the way, as one may say, under careful watching, they were not disturbed by the change in their manner of life, and were becoming different without knowing it."
  • (16) It is concluded that cerebral cortex plays an important role in the regulation of unlearned, innate activities with the overall behaviour of the organism.
  • (17) These results imply that organized visual perception is an unlearned capacity of the human organism.
  • (18) Those "dumb spots" resulting from unlearned theory, especially in those areas where psychoanalysis is widening its scope of diagnostic categories, age range, and socioeconomic status, are not considered countertransference errors.
  • (19) There are few careful studies of the effects of solvents on unlearned animal behavior during acute exposure, despite the importance of the prevention of acute behavioral or neurological effects in the workplace.
  • (20) These experiments were conducted to determine (1) whether dorsal and ventral ascending spinal pathways can each mediate unlearned supraspinal nocifensive responses of cats to noxious thermal stimuli and (2) whether interrupting the spinal projection of supraspinal monoaminergic neurons alters the excitability and natural modulation of these responses.

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