The research process and the Standford experiment

In chapter 2 " The Research Process" I read about different techniques social scientist use to describe and measure the patterns in social life. One of the techniques is Identifying and understanding patterns I'm social life and also gathering empirical evidence which are evidence based on observation and or experience, explains how the evidence was collected and analyzed also viewing research claims and provisional knowledge subject to revision . In chapter 2  it also tells us how how theory and data act together in social science. Research theory helps us identify key research questions and to interpret the data that are collected. Data provide the evidence that can support existing theory, lead to changes in the theory, contradict a theory, or result in the development of a new theory.
       One of the research that relates to the chapter 2 reading is the Standford Experiment video . The purpose of Stanford prison experiment was to see the psychological effects on the prison guards and the prisoners. To conduct this experiment, Philip Zimbardo randomly assigned 24 college  students to be either guards or prisoners and to live in a fake prison for the next two weeks. After six days, however, the experiment had to be terminated. The students, who were assigned to be guards, started to mistreat the “prisoners” by calling them names, threatening to beat them, or forcing them to commit humiliating acts. Also the students, who were selected to be prisoners, showed signs of depression, low self-esteem, and other signs of emotional disturbances.  This experiment is a good example of the research process because in this experiment they used a lot of the techniques that social scientist use like empirical evidence, Philip Zimbardo and he's researcher observed that, because  the the prisoners where being mistreated the started to feel depressed .