The ten major origins of modern psychology are Wundt and structuralism, functionalism, Gestalt psychology, the behavioral perspective, Sigmund Freud and the psychodynamic perspective, the humanistic perspective, the physiological perspective, the evolutionary perspective, the cognitive perspective and the cultural and diversity perspective. Each one of these perspective searches for answers to different kinds off questions. Due to the different approaches, each perspectives form their own assumptions and explanations. Some perspectives are widely accepted while others struggle for acceptance.
             The first psychologist to be first known is Wilhelm Wundt. He addresses the theory of structuralism which sought and identifies the components of the conscious mind as well as introspective method. The perspectives of structuralism are to "break down the contents of the mind into basic unites like the basic elements of matter in chemistry that could identify the structure of conscious experience and describe its major components".
             William James is one of the first applied psychologists to study functionalism which consists of people use information to adapt to their environment. Functionalism perspectives were to create optimal conditions for learning or selecting the right workers for various jobs.
             Wolfgang Kohler, a Gestalt psychologist who was born in 1887 and died
             In 1967, used chimpanzees in the study of insight learning. Kohler who was born
             in Revel, Estonia and moved to the United States in 1935, did pioneering studies
             in the behavior of apes that showed the importance of perceptual organization
             Behaviors refer to any overt (observable) response or activity by an organism. Watson asserted that psychologists could study anything that people do or say -shopping, playing, chess, eating- but they couldn't study scientifically the thoughts, wishes, and feelings that might accompany these observable behaviors. Wa...