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A couple of investigators have studied the impact of one aspect of depression, negative affect, on learning
among children. In general, the results of these studies indicate that induces negative affect has an
adverse impact on the learning of preschool children in academic like tasks. Masters, Barden and
Ford (1979) reported that negative affect decreased learning rates and slowed the performance of 4
years old children on a shape discrimination learning task. Positive affect, in contrast, enhanced
learning and rate of performance. On a letter discrimination task, induced negative affect increased
the response latency and errors of 4 to 6 years old children (Graves & Lahey, 1982). These results
suggest that negative affect may impair some of the basic learning process of children. However,
more research is needed, and if this has application to depression.