What's the difference between unlearn and unteach?
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.
Unteach
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught.
(v. t.) To cause to be forgotten; as, to unteach what has been learned.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I recall hearing industry professionals claim that game design was something like an unteachable dark art, but now, with bigger budgets and with game design graduates placed in most studios, this attitude has mostly faded."
(2) This is the characteristic that makes the act of empathy unteachable.
(3) Teach poo as a resource If you do CLTS first, you teach disgust of the shit and I don’t think you can unteach it, so then there are problems with using biogas and other things that come from it.