The document discusses the history and development of different perspectives in psychology. It describes how structuralism began with Wundt establishing the first psychology lab in 1879 to study mental processes through introspection. Functionalism founded by William James focused on how mental processes enable adaptation. In the 1920s-1960s, behaviorism became prominent with theorists like Watson, Skinner and Pavlov influential. Today, psychology focuses on both behavior and cognition with various perspectives discussed like behavioral, psychoanalytic, humanistic, biological, evolutionary, cognitive and socio-cultural. Phrenology in the late 1800s theorized personality traits were revealed by skull shape and bumps.