If you did know how much time you had left, ? how would you act differently from what you're doing now?

如果你确实知道了自己还剩多少时间，你会和你现在的行为有不同吗？

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Behaviors last longer if they're reinforced intermittently " and this is known as "the partial reinforcement effect."

间隔强化会使行为持续时间更久,这就是所谓的“部分强化效应“

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And that's something which we're going to devote some time to when we talk about social behavior, and in particular, when we talk about sex.

这是当我们谈到社会行为时,要花一些时间去讲的东西,特别是当我们谈到性的时候

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Now you keep on trying and because the reinforcement is intermittent you don't expect it as much and so your behavior will persist across often a huge amount of time.

你会不停的尝试,因为此时的强化是间隔强化,你并不会抱有很高的期望,因此，你的行为,通常会持续相当长的一段时间。

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