Type C Strategies Flashcards
What is the primary characteristic of the Type C attachment strategy?
Type C is a strategy of emotional coercion that ranges from mild to intense to deceptive.
How do Type C speakers differ from Type A and Type B speakers in terms of causation?
Unlike Type A speakers who simplify causal relations and Type B speakers who understand partial and shared causation, Type C speakers experience such complexity of causation that they rely primarily on their feelings.
What role do feelings play in the Type C strategy?
Feelings guide Type C speakers’ behavior and form the basis of their self-protective strategy.
What challenges do Type C speakers face in understanding causation and outcomes?
Type C speakers cannot easily discern what caused what or their own contributions to outcomes, leaving them primarily with their own mixed feelings to explain past events and motivate future behavior.
How do the problems of complexity and complicity affect Type C speakers’ memory and integrative capacity?
These problems create mild confusion of meaning, particularly in semantic representation, affecting episodic memory and integrative capacity.
What are the primary mental processes of low-numbered Type C speakers (C1 and C2)
The primary mental processes include (a) using distorted and mixed feelings to guide behavior, (b) involving others in the regulation of their affect, and (c) fragmenting the temporal organization of episodes by lack of clarity about their own contributions, while retaining extensive information about their feelings.
What is the result of the uncertainty experienced by Type C speakers?
The result is a reluctance to let go of the past, leading to an entangling present focus on the past.
How do fluctuating affective states impact Type C speakers’ behavior?
Fluctuating affective states lead to changing and unpredictable behavior, adding to the complexity of relationships.
How do C1 and C2 speakers differ in their perspectives?
C1 speakers oscillate between competing perspectives, while C2 speakers display vague uncertainty regarding how things are connected.
What issue arises for midrange to high-numbered Type C speakers under threatening conditions?
Wavering and unclear behavior is neither effective nor protective under threatening conditions.
How do midrange to high-numbered Type C speakers resolve the problem of unclear causal conditions?
They resolve it by increasing the split between invulnerable/powerful affects like anger and vulnerable/powerless affects like fear and desire for comfort, leading one affect to guide behavior with increasing exclusivity.
