New discoveries influence contemporary psychological perspectives because they provide new ways to look at things, or give new technology for new ways to diagnose problems and try to solve them.
Psychology is the scientific study of mental and behavioral process and since past new discoveries have played crucial role in the development of these mental and behavioral process because discoveries provide new perspective which lighten up new and alternative route to look at different things. For example, discovery of fire and wheel in early stone age period left a psychological impact on the people of that era which slowly led to the evolution of human civilization.
