---------------------- www.psychlotron.org.uk ---------------------- Name of resource: Depression & learning theory (learned helplessness) slides & activity Submitted by: Aidan Sammons Specification details: AQA-A Other specifications: AQA-B, Edexcel Guidance: The slides cover the basic ideas behind learning theory accounts of depression and have an animated section on Seligman's learned helplessness experiments with dogs. There is some evaluative material. Animations will only work in PowerPoint XP, 2003 or later. The activity prompts students to relate the behaviour of Seligmans' dogs to depression in humans and to identify scientific and ethical objections to the research.