Buddha pondered how sensations and perceptions combine to form ideas

In China, Confucius stressed power of ideas and an educated mind

Hebrew scholars anticipate psychology by linking mind and emotion to the body

Philosopher teacher Socrates in ancient Greece and his student Plato concluded that mind is separable from the body and continues after the body dies. He said knowledge is not preexisting and instead grows from experiences

Across English Channel in Britain, Francis Bacon became one of the founders of modern science and influences today's psychological science

In 1879, at Germany University of Leipzig, Wundt was creating an experimental apparatus. It measured the time lag between people hearing a ball hit a platform by pressing a telegraph key. People responded in about one tenth of a second. He wanted to measure the “atoms of the mind”. He began the first psychological laboratory

Psychology began organized into different branches from early schools

Student Edward Bradford Titchener joined Cornell University and introduced structuralism

When Harvard denied Calkin to being psychology's first female psychology Ph.D, Margaret Floy Washburn (who wrote The Animal Mind) became second female APA president in 1921