In the 1980s, the New York Islanders hockey team started the tradition of growing their beards until they won the Stanley Cup (the biggest prize in professional hockey). We would classify this as _______________ behavior because the players behaved as though a response-consequence contingency existed (IF you grow your beard THEN you will win the Stanley Cup) when in fact the relation between this response and this consequence is noncontingent.

superstitious

consequential

elicited

evoked