Cognitive psych is often traced back to the 1950s.
Psychology is often traced to Wundt's lab in 1879.
Textbooks speak of "proto-psychologists" like Fechner & Helmholtz in the 1800s... Westerners all.

Have you heard about Ibn al-Haytham, whose work predated them by 100s of years?

Born in Basra (in present-day Iraq) around 965 AD, al-Haytham (aka Alhazen) is regarded as the "father of modern optics" for his methodical use of mirrors & lenses to understand how light travels & how it reflects off surfaces into the eyes to support visual perception.

Noting that the projection of light into the eyes is not sufficient to support our 3D perceptions of the world, he argued that "seeing" involves unconscious judgments about things like distance & visual angle, predating Helmholtz's notion of "unconscious inference" by centuries.

Who else from outside Western culture should students learn about when studying the history of psychological science?

(sources: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~hatfield/uncinf.pdf; https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=HATTSC&aid=HATTSC.1)