Multimedia students' dependence on information from the outside world can have an impact on their ability to identify and locate information from multiple resources in learning environments and thereby affect the construction of mental models. Field dependence-independence has been used to assess the ability to extract essential information from…

Explores the effects of field independence (FI) and dogmatism (D) on a programmed learning task with and without strong prompts in an aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI) framework. These two cognitive styles have been demonstrated to affect performance on various cognitive tasks and reflect characteristic, self-consistent ways of functioning in…