Psychology posters
LearnPosters has 100 free printable psychology posters, grouped into 7 topics: Cognitive, Developmental, Social, Biological, Clinical & abnormal. The findings, effects and methods a psychology degree is built on. They are made for undergraduates, professionals and anyone revising the subject. Every one downloads as a vector PDF that prints sharp on US Letter, A4 or a copy-shop A1.
Cognitive, developmental, social and biological psychology, plus the statistics and study design that decide whether a finding stands up.
100 free printable posters · 7 topics · vector PDF
Cognitive
Memory, attention, language and decision making.
The Multi-Store Model
Atkinson and Shiffrin's three stores, and the evidence for and against.
Working Memory
Baddeley's model, and why it replaced a single short-term store.
Forgetting
The main explanations, and what distinguishes them.
Levels of Processing
Why what you do with information beats how long you hold it.
Attention
Where the filter sits, and the three models of selective attention.
Dual Process Theory
Two systems of thinking, and what each is good and bad at.
Heuristics
The mental shortcuts and the systematic errors they produce.
Problem Solving
How problems are represented and solved, and what blocks solutions.
Language
The main theories of language acquisition, and the evidence for each.
Gestalt Principles
How the visual system groups elements into objects.
Perception
Bottom-up against top-down, and why both are needed.
Decision Making
How people actually decide, against how normative theory says they should.
Schemas
Mental frameworks that organise knowledge and distort memory.
Eyewitness Testimony
Why confident eyewitnesses are frequently wrong.
Cognitive Load
Three kinds of load, and which one to reduce.
Developmental
How thinking and behaviour change with age.
Piaget's Stages
Four stages of cognitive development, and what each one cannot yet do.
Piaget's Mechanisms
How development happens, according to Piaget, between the stages.
Vygotsky
Development as social first, and the zone just beyond what a child can do.
Attachment
The attachment types, how they are measured, and what predicts them.
Bowlby
Monotropy, the internal working model, and the critical period claim.
Erikson's Stages
Eight psychosocial crises across the whole lifespan.
Moral Development
Kohlberg's six stages, and the critique that reshaped the field.
Theory of Mind
Understanding that others have beliefs different from your own.
Language Milestones
The typical sequence, and how much variation is normal.
Adolescence
What changes physically, cognitively and socially, and the timing mismatch.
Cognitive Ageing
What declines with age, what does not, and what improves.
Nature & Nurture
What twin and adoption studies actually show.
Parenting Styles
Baumrind's dimensions, and the outcomes associated with each.
Critical & Sensitive Periods
When timing matters for development, and how much.
Biological
Brain, neurotransmitters and behaviour.
The Neuron
The parts of a neuron, and how a signal travels along one.
Neurotransmitters
The main transmitters, what each is associated with, and the drugs that act on them.
Brain Structures
The structures a course names, and what each is associated with.
Hemispheres
What the split-brain studies showed, and what the popular version gets wrong.
Divisions of the Nervous System
The hierarchy of divisions, and which ones you control.
The Stress Response
The two pathways, their timing, and what chronic activation does.
Biological Rhythms
Circadian, ultradian and infradian rhythms, and what entrains them.
Sleep
The architecture of a night, and what each stage is associated with.
Neuroplasticity
How the brain changes with experience, and the evidence for it.
Brain Imaging
The techniques, what each measures, and the trade-off between them.
Evolutionary Explanations
How evolutionary arguments in psychology work, and where they overreach.
Behavioural Genetics
What twin, family and adoption studies can and cannot show.
Drug Action
How psychoactive drugs act at the synapse, and the vocabulary.
Localisation of Function
The evidence for localised functions, and the case for distributed networks.
Clinical & abnormal
Disorders, diagnosis and the main therapies.
Defining Abnormality
Four definitions, and what each one gets wrong.
DSM & ICD
The two classification systems, and the criticisms of both.
Depression
The diagnostic features and the main explanatory models.
Anxiety
The main anxiety presentations, and the model that explains maintenance.
Phobias
The two-process model, and why exposure works.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
The model, the techniques, and what the evidence supports.
Therapies Compared
The main modalities, and what each assumes the problem is.
Biological Treatments
The main classes and what they are used for.
The Diathesis-Stress Model
Why the same event affects people differently.
Psychosis
The symptom categories and the main explanations.
Eating Disorders
The main presentations and contributing factors.
Addiction
The main models, and what each explains well.
Resilience
What predicts recovery, and what the evidence supports.
Stigma
Why people delay seeking help, and what reduces it.
Personality & individual differences
Traits, measurement and intelligence.
The Big Five
The five-factor model, and why it is the consensus.
Why MBTI Is Criticised
The most popular personality test, and why psychologists do not use it.
Person or Situation
The debate about whether traits predict behaviour at all.
Freud's Model
The structural model, the defences, and the evidential position.
Defence Mechanisms
The ego's strategies for managing anxiety.
Humanistic Approaches
Rogers and Maslow, and the concepts that survived into practice.
Intelligence
The main models, from g to multiple intelligences.
IQ Testing
What IQ tests measure, how they are scaled, and their limits.
The Self
Self-concept, self-esteem and self-efficacy — three different things.
Motivation
Drive, arousal and self-determination — three levels of explanation.
Temperament
Early-appearing individual differences, and how they relate to later personality.
Psychometrics
What makes a test good, and the two properties every measure needs.
Culture & Personality
How culture shapes the self, and the WEIRD problem in the literature.
Personality Disorders
How they are classified, and the shift toward dimensions.
Methods & statistics
Designing studies and reading results.
Experimental Design
The three designs, and the trade-off each makes.
Variables
The types of variable, and what operationalisation means.
Hypotheses
Writing a testable hypothesis, and choosing between directional and not.
Sampling
The sampling methods, and the bias each introduces.
Reliability & Validity
Consistency against accuracy, and the types of each.
Controlling Variables
The techniques for keeping an experiment interpretable.
Research Methods
The main methods, and what each can and cannot establish.
Descriptive Statistics
Choosing the right measure of central tendency and spread.
The Normal Distribution
The curve, the empirical rule, and what skew means.
Choosing a Test
The decision table that selects an inferential test.
Significance & Errors
What p < 0.05 means, and the two kinds of mistake.
Research Ethics
The principles a study must satisfy, and what each requires.
Qualitative Methods
What qualitative research is for, and how it is analysed.
The Replication Crisis
What was found, why it happened, and what has changed.
Reading a Paper
The order to read a journal article in, and what to check.
Questions about the Psychology posters
- What is the Psychology section of LearnPosters?
- The findings, effects and methods a psychology degree is built on. Cognitive, developmental, social and biological psychology, plus the statistics and study design that decide whether a finding stands up.
- What topics do the Psychology posters cover?
- 100 posters across 7 topics. Cognitive — Memory, attention, language and decision making. Developmental — How thinking and behaviour change with age. Social — Groups, attitudes, conformity and persuasion. Biological — Brain, neurotransmitters and behaviour. Clinical & abnormal — Disorders, diagnosis and the main therapies. Personality & individual differences — Traits, measurement and intelligence. Methods & statistics — Designing studies and reading results.
- Who are the Psychology posters for?
- The psychology charts are pitched at undergraduates and professionals — the frameworks and equations a course keeps returning to. Nothing here is tied to a school year, so a curious beginner and someone revising the same material for an exam are looking at the same psychology chart.
- Which Psychology poster should I print first?
- The Multi-Store Model, Working Memory and Forgetting are the ones people reach for first — they are the references the rest of the psychology set assumes you already have on the wall.The Multi-Store ModelWorking MemoryForgetting
- Are the Psychology posters free to print?
- Yes — all 100 of them. Each psychology poster is a free vector PDF that needs no account, prints on US Letter or A4, and enlarges to A1 without softening. Home, classroom, library and tutoring use are all covered by the licence.Read the licence
Where the psychology charts come from
These posters summarise. When you need the full account — or the normative text a chart is compressing — start here.
- APA Dictionary of Psychology — American Psychological Association. The definitions used for every term on these sheets.
- APA Ethical Principles — American Psychological Association. The framework behind the research-methods and ethics charts.
Social
Groups, attitudes, conformity and persuasion.
Conformity
Asch's line study, the variables that changed it, and why people conformed.
Obedience
Milgram's findings, the variations, and the situational explanation.
Types of Influence
Compliance, identification and internalisation — how deep each goes.
Cognitive Dissonance
The discomfort of inconsistency, and the ways it gets resolved.
Attribution
How we explain behaviour, and the errors we make systematically.
Prejudice
How intergroup hostility forms, and the conditions under which contact reduces it.
Social Identity Theory
Why merely being sorted into a group produces favouritism.
The Bystander Effect
Why more witnesses means less help, and the five steps that must all be passed.
Group Decisions
Groupthink and polarisation — two ways groups decide worse than individuals.
Persuasion
Two routes to attitude change, and which one lasts.
Roles & Situations
The Stanford Prison Experiment, and the serious challenges to it.
Social Facilitation
Why an audience improves simple tasks and worsens complex ones.
Helping Behaviour
Why people help, and the debate about whether altruism is ever pure.
Attitudes & Behaviour
Why attitudes predict behaviour poorly, and what improves the prediction.