Details about its inclusion into a full-fledged science too are not as easy to find. Being a growing movement then a science in the years gone by, Psychology has been refined to the scope we see it in now. It was in between philosophy with its question to the how of man and his mind and physiology as to how the mind actually works.  It was refined to be a separate science between the two because the two already covered questions under their purview. The line today has been drawn clear. Psychology separates itself from philosophy by limiting its study via scientific methods as opposed to logic or mere observation. Physiology contributed immensely to Psychology with its in depth understanding of the working of the brain which eventually guides all human thought processes and their subsequent behavior.  

The first step was when, in the 17th century, philosopher Rene Descartes from France mooted the idea of the mind and body being separate entities by themselves both which play an equal part in the functioning of the human body. Then there was the nature vs. nurture argument that hasn’t really been closed to this day. It officially was a whole discipline in itself when Wilhelm Wundt, a physiologist, used scientific methods for the first time to research reaction times. He followed with a publication titled - Principles of Physiological Psychology.

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