0 past simple and past participle of unlearn
1 to make an effort to forget your usual way of doing something so that you can learn a new and sometimes better way:
This research strategy also prevents animallearning techniques from confusing learned and unlearned components of behavior.
A learned auditory, for example, might be bored by a sermon perfectly suited to an unlearned audience.
Furthermore, in a spatially changing environment the phenotypic distribution may alter through unlearned developmental processes.
After the lesion, both monkeys were also tested on the previously unlearned discrimination, but we did not find greater disruption by the lesion.
Operating at the same level as this system are brainstem pathways for unlearned responses to stimuli, including reflexes.
Such dialectical moves produce their own correspondences, and metaphors which are unlearned rather than transferred.
Homosocial desires, she implies, are not necessarily "unlearned" or "passed through," nor should they be.
Unconditioned behaviors (responses) are, by definition, unlearned or innate.
