Bill is a great college athlete and can play several sports. last week, his family and friends from home attended the game to watch him play. bill played even better than usual. his increased performance demonstrates the phenomenon known as

Social facilitation

Explanation:Social facilitation is the tendency appearing in the individual  that helps the particular person to perform better than earlier and well than the usual times in any certain field.

Social facilitation boost the mental energy of a person helps the person to perform well in the simple task .It also might lead to the worse performance in the task which are new to the person or has complexity. Bill also felt this emotion while playing the presence of his family.

manifest functions are the recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern, while latent functions are those unrecognized and unintended consequences. to analyze the manifest functions of any social institution, we have to study its contribution to the continuation of a group, community, or society.