This document provides an overview of the history and major approaches of psychology. It discusses key figures from the 19th century who influenced the early development of psychology as a field, including Wundt who opened the first psychology lab. The major historical approaches are explained such as structuralism, functionalism, Gestalt psychology, psychoanalysis, and behaviorism. Finally, the major contemporary approaches - biological, behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, sociocultural, and evolutionary - are defined in one to two sentences each.