COPY THIS INTO YOUR PACKS!! Empathizing-systemizing theory and gender Explanation-AO1 The theory states that the female brain has been predominantly hard-wired for empathy, which is the cognitive skill of identifying another person‘s emotions and thoughts, and the affective aspect of responding to these with an appropriate emotion. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for systemizing (understanding and building systems) which refers to skills such as finding out how systems work, predicting them or inventing new ones. Many things can be systems, such as a pond, a house, a farm since they all follow their own set rules. You cannot really systemize a person in the sense that individuals do not follow a set pattern, so empathy is more helpful for day-to-day interaction than systemizing, whereas systemizing predicts nearly everything but people. Baron Cohen theorizes that systemizing and empathizing depend on different regions in the brain. Incidentally, Baron-Cohen describes autism as the extreme male brain because autism involves minimal empathy and maximum systemizing. The theory hypothesizes that systemizing gave an evolutionary advantage to male hunter gatherers and empathizing gave an evolutionary advantage to female carers.

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