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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: you really can't unlearn something once you learn it!. if you no longer need it, you can forget it, but it still is there, just not as vividly!. It simply is stored in the long term memory vault!. Even if there is opposing data, you still dont unlearn it, you simply rewrite it!. and i think a lot of people are getting forgetting and unlearning mixed up!.!.!. they are two different things!. and with behaviorism!.!.!. you really dont unlearn it- you simply learn a new behavior that replaces the old!. once you learn something, its there, whether you like it or not!. And with head truama - you forget it, not unlearn it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The things that you have already learned but are not using is stored into your long term memory!. Each piece of memory or thing that you learned has key words kind of attached to it!. So when you think about something you are doing or something that you learned but need now you pull that from your long term memory and put it into your short term memory for use!. Over time somethings may be hard to retrieve the less you retrieve it!. and what keeps you learning is well the constant storage of information into your memory!. now if you can make sense of that information and put it together and use it you have then in fact learned something like you are doing now from reading this!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Your brain remembers everything!. Even things you may not be able to recall are still there!. You can't unlearn anything that you have learned, but you can learn a different way of doing them, thinking about them, or how you perceive them!. 1!. How you tie your shoe!. You learn at a young age how to do this!. You may find a new way to tie you shoe, or you may have slip on shoes, but you will always know how to tie them if you go back to ones with strings!. 2!. You may be brought up as a racist!. You learn that certain people are bad or undesirable!. You will learn later in life that the persons that taught you this were themselves bad and undesirable not the people they taught you to hate!. 3!. You may perceive that broccoli is nasty and bad at a young age!. Later in life that perception is changed once you eat it cooked the proper way or with cheese!. The only way to un-learn is to be unfortunate enough to have Alzheimer's or have Brain TraumaWww@QuestionHome@Com There are 4 levels of learning, and you are only in real danger of forgetting a skill from the first 2 levels!. Level 1: Unconscious Incompetence You suck at something, and don't even know that you suck at it!. An example is a sport that you never heard of!. Level 2: Conscious Incompetence You heard of something and you strive to learn it, and you practice, but you are still bad at it!. Level 3: Conscious Competence You are getting good at something, but it requires concentration!. Level 4: Unconscious Competence You don't even have to think about the skill, you just do it!. Like breathing, or walking, or driving, or whatever else you are really really good at!. If you hit level 4 at any skill you'll probably never be bad at it or forget it altogether!. It's the level 2's that we loose over time!. And some of the level 3's, but those can be relearned pretty easily!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The easiest way to unlearn things is to learn something new!. You tend to "suppress" in your memory those things that you don't use or need to remember!. A good example of that is the childhood memories on a daily basis!. You forget things that are not important!. So make the new things you are learning important and the stuff you want to "unlearn" will be eliminated in time!.Www@QuestionHome@Com hypnotists can make you forget! i don't know what keeps you learning! or what happens to things when you don't need them anymore! i went to a Welsh language school, (Welsh is spoken only in Wales (next to England UK) the countries main language is English tho) but i learned it from young and now I've left and in an English speaking college I'm forgetting all of it! because I'm not using it! - if that makes sense!Www@QuestionHome@Com If you no longer need the things you learn, it will slowly creep out of your long term memory!. If you don't use it, you lose it!. The way you keep the things you've learned is by keeping your mind busy!. Do puzzles, trivia, anything to keep the nuerons firingWww@QuestionHome@Com You are born with the fear of falling and the fear of a loud noise!. All else is a learned response!. If learned, it can be unlearned!. The best way to unlearn a bad behavior is to learn an equal, but good behavior that replaces the old one!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Once you learn something, it is stored in your brain forever!. Sometimes it's harder to retrieve things that you haven't thought about for a long time!. The government is the only ones I know that have a pill/shot to make people forget about things!.Www@QuestionHome@Com thats kinda confusing, but if you forget something, i guess you have unlearned it, and you keep learning by experience, and if you no longer need what you learn!. than you just have it in your head no matter if you need it or notWww@QuestionHome@Com I think you can, you can choose not to rememeber them!. If you no longer need things you learned, theyre repressed in your memory(short term) and you forget them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I frequently realize that I don't remember things that I am sure that I have already learned!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Intrinsic knowledge seems to last forever!. Aromas can bring completely forgotten details back into vivid memory!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The brain is perfect as an organism!. It it gains, sustains, maintains, modifies without limitations!.!.!.aside from lack of use!. USE IT OR LOSE IT!(term of practicality)Www@QuestionHome@Com well if you dont use the things youve learned for a while, they will gradually slip away!. thats where these two sayings come from: -practice makes perfect -and!.!. use it or lose it!Www@QuestionHome@Com no but you can forget lolWww@QuestionHome@Com I understand what you are saying you forget about them if you really dont need to aply themWww@QuestionHome@Com ifyou learn it differently the second timeWww@QuestionHome@Com its called forgeting derrrWww@QuestionHome@Com Brain Damage!. Try sticking a fork through your temple!.!.!.!. There's no such thing as selective memory loss!.Www@QuestionHome@Com you forget them - people give up on learning quickly and just watch tv!. man its sadWww@QuestionHome@Com my vote goes for not ever unlearning, but just forgettingWww@QuestionHome@Com |