SHARED environment (family) and unique environment (the individual events that shape a life) on a trait. 2. Study of adoptees:-Researchers use ADOPTION studies to determine the contributions of genetic and environmental factors to the development of alcohol problems.Adoption studies are a powerful tool for evaluating the interactions of genetic and environmental factors in eliciting human characteristics, such as intelligence (i.e., IQ), and disorders, such as alcoholism. The relative importance of “nature” (i.e., genetic inheritance) versus “nurture” (i.e., the rearing environment) in human behavior was first debated at the BEGINNING of this century. The strength of the adoption design—separating genetic from environmental influences on a person’s development—results from removing the child (ideally at birth) from the birth parents and their environment into a different environment with biologically unrelated adoptive parents.It is also a method to measure the influence of heredity on learning. 3. Free association:-Free association is a practice in psychoanalytic therapy. In this practice, a therapist asks a person to freely share THOUGHTS, words, and anything else that comes to mind. The thoughts need not be coherent.In traditional free association, a person in therapy is encouraged to verbalize or write all thoughts that COME to mind. Free association is not a linear thought pattern. Rather, a person might produce an incoherent stream of words, such as dog, red, mother, and scoot. They may also jump randomly from one memory or emotion to another. The idea is that free association reveals associations and connections that might otherwise go uncovered. People in therapy may then reveal repressed memories and emotions.Thus, it is concluded that free association is not used as a method to measure the influence of heredity on learning.