English to Greek Social Sciences Psychology

Punding is a term that was coined originally to describe complex prolonged, purposeless, and stereotyped behaviour.

Punding activity is characterized by compulsive fascination with and performance of repetitive, mechanical tasks, such as assembling and disassembling, collecting, or sorting household objects. For example, punding may consist of activities such as:

collecting pebbles and lining them up as perfectly as possible,
disassembling wristwatches and putting them back together again,
building hundreds of small wooden boxes
trying but failing to systematically remove the entire contents of all the drawers and shelves in the home and sort through all their contents.